The coming election

Will Atlas shrug?

Politics is mediated. We know what we know about it because of the work journalists do, in the broadest sense. Not just what they report, but the way they report. The alchemy of word and image. It shapes reality. Few of us have independent access.

So, when journalist say voters don't know Anthony Albanese or his program, or that the PM has got away with creating X image, this is a far bigger criticism of their work than anything you see on Twitter. It is an extraordinary self-admission of failure, as is this: