Gralin
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Just imagine how the shills in the Murdoch press and Sky News would react if the A-G did just that rather than turning up at press conferences to respond to their vapid ignorance and self obsessed grandstanding.
As this excellent article on the latest Dutton directed soap opera points out - facts and substance get suffocated by spectacle. And good government suffers as a result.
"So the lesson learned is a brutal one. There is no time to prioritise substance over the optics on a toxic issue that can be weaponised successfully against you.
There is zero reward for taking a moment to listen and think. Zero reward for respecting the cogitations of the highest court in the land.
This feels depressing, because it is depressing. Some days feel like we have entered engagement economy end times. Perhaps this is why the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, exploded like a firecracker during a press conference on Wednesday."
He didn't explode like a fire cracker though.
Journalists are too wedded to emotive language.
That article ends up doing what it's complaining about with that line