Oops! Someone in the ABC’s graphics department didn’t read the story being read out by Sydney’s Juanita Phillips during the 7pm bulletin last night.

The story was about a series of explosions at a military base in Russia-annexed Crimea.

The base was hundreds of kilometres from the Ukraine warzone and the blasts threatened Russian holidaymakers lazing on the beach and trying to forget the silliness going on in a neighbouring country.

Russia said the blasts were the result of the detonation of stored ammunition. Well, those sneaky Ruskie bastards would say that, wouldn’t they? Doesn’t mean the ammo wasn’t detonated by Ukraine missiles or saboteurs! But wait, there’s more. Kyiv denied any involvement. If Ukraine were involved, you think they’d want to boast about it seeing their country is being reduced to rubble by Putin’s brutal military.

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Across Sydney town an hour earlier, Channel 9’s Peter Overton was declaring that “the world is reeling from the passing” of our very own Olivia Neutron-Bomb.

Nine, of course, is just about the master of hyperbole, especially when it comes to promoting its endless reality TV shows that “have stopped the world in its tracks”, “has the world spellbound”, etc, etc.

Once more we’ll educate Nine – and we Down Under might be distressed by this news – but there are probably countless millions of humans around the world who aren’t remote tribes in what’s left of the Amazon who, honestly, have never known Olivia to love her, and as a result of that total ignorance of our sweetheart, have never wanted to get physical with her.

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The MGH spotted this tweet overnight by journalist and author Peter FitzSimons and all we can say is this: let’s just hope that The Sydney Morning Herald editor Bevan Shields has got things right … for once.

The MGH thinks he has … and that surely is a very welcome change.