It’s been a source of great amusement to your resident ranter for a long, long time whenever the precious petals in the mainstream mediocre have cocked a sneering snook at citizen journalists who use social media platforms to ply their craft, especially Twitter.

Yet how often have we relied on those citizen journalists to bring us the news that so many imposters in the mainstream media won’t?

Two glaring examples over recent days prove that case rather sadly.

One. Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy’s hilarious gaffe in Parliament the other day when he named King Arthur as one of Queen’s Elizabeth’s long-reigning royal predecessors. And two: videos of spoilt sook aka King Chucky the Turd throwing kindergarten-level tantrums.

The Bug has already had some fun with Chuck’s tanties so we’ll concentrate on Guy’s hilarious blunder, and my, oh my, the fun those citizen journalists on Twitter have been a having! Here’s a taste, with PRGuy first up to set the scene for us.

Well done, all! And there were many, many other fine examples. While it all amounts to much hilarity, you know what’s really sad about all this?

Guy didn’t even have the nous to cop it on the chin with a little bit of “aren’t I a goose!” humility instead of rushing out to change Hansard and getting the likes of colleague Georgie Crozier to lie and call his blooper a “slip of the tongue” even though King Arthur was written in his prepared condolence speech.

I’ve got no idea what Matthew … sorry, Matt .. sorry M… can do to prevent a Andrews Danslide on 26 November but, fuck me roan, surely adding some self-effacing humility to his paucity of attributes couldn’t do any harm?

The other very sad point, of course, and pointed to by many Twitter citizen journalists/warriors, is the total lack of coverage by Victorian mainstream media to a gaffe that apparently is being talked about around the world.

When we reflect on that day-one campaign “gaffe” of Albanese that so many of these mainstream so-called journos declared had cost him the election and banged on about it relentlessly, we can only image what The Herald-Sun and The Age and 3AW would have done with this, two months out from the state election, if Premier Andrews had delivered the King Arthur gaffe.

Don Gordon-Brown