… or someone making every post a winner?

Okay, it’s quiz time for all of you Media Glass House aficionados out there – well, anyone in Bugland really.

If Opposition Leader Peter Dutton keeps persisting with an attack line that’s so totally and bizarrely wrong that it’s laughable, why does Channel 9 news keep giving him a platform to sprout it?

Is it because:

A. Channel 9 News loves to take the mickey out of the poor bastard who’s on a hiding to nothing trying to resurrect a political party that is for all intents and purposes dead, buried and cremated; or

B. Channel 9 News producers actually believe that not only is Dutton making sense but he’s scoring great points with the public in the process and let’s hope for Australia’s sake he’s the nation’s prime minister in 2025.

To help in your vote, here are the background facts.

In a Nine news piece on Tuesday night on predictions of a 35 per cent residential power bill rise next year, reporter Fiona Willan made it perfectly clear that Anthony Albanese had promised before the May election that household electricity bills would be cut by $275 by 2025. Yes, you read correctly. By 2025.

Willan then included the clip shown above with Peter Dutton saying this: “Their plan was to reduce power prices for $275. They promised that on 97 occasions and they have not delivered on it.”

Maybe not 97 occasions, but Dutton has made this “broken promise” claim many times. He knows full well the promise was one to be delivered by 2025. The last time the MGH looked at a calendar, that’s two years and two-and-a-half months away.

So, off you go now. Grab a blank piece of paper and a pencil and write A or B on it. Fold the paper neatly in a way that hides your answer and then throw it in the waste bin. And why?

One final tip. Channel 9 is owned by Nine Entertainment Co. which is chaired by Peter Costello.

So the answer is B.

Three times lucky

Someone on Twitter alerted the Media Glass House to the fact that it took the Australian Broadcasting Corporation three goes to label a certain criminal case being heard in the Australian capital by its correct name!

Better late than never, Aunty!

Calling it a scene is a crime

Memo Channel 9 Brisbane 6pm news on Tuesday: When two cops shoot dead a man in a south Brisbane street, it’s probably best not to tell viewers you’re crossing to your reporter at the “crime scene”. That does tend to suggest the coppers might have done something wrong.

Let’s leave that to the investigators to determine, okay?