…and we deserve to be Marked down for it!
The Bug‘s Media Glass House is feeling pretty stupid this morning. Yes, more than normal. Leave it alone, please!
In one of yesterday’s posts, we pondered how long it might be before the LNP’s Mount-Coot-Tha branch – sorry, Nine News Brisbane – revisited a story first run last Friday and again on Tuesday night, namely how much an infrastructure project to speed up the Brisbane-Gold Coast rail link had blown out by and how naughty various Palaszczuk ministers had clearly been by not coming clean with Queenslanders the moment they heard of the blowout in costs.
We stupidly suggested the story might get rehashed perhaps monthly leading up to the election next October? Perhaps tag-teamed with that never-ending Nine News message as Voice for Victims’ official public relations outfit that Palaszczuk is doing absolutely nothing to combat soaring youth crime that is crippling the state and terrorising its citizens?
Well, it’s lucky we didn’t take bets. It wasn’t monthly. It wasn’t a week. It was the next night and we were only some 29 days out!
Take it away, Nine News Brisbane and Melissa Downes last night: “Transport Minister Mark Bailey has taken a swipe at journalists who questioned him about the spending of taxpayers’ money and when he first knew about massive blowouts to a Gold Coast rail project.
“The Minister claims he cannot remember when he first learned the project would cost taxpayers at least 2.5 billion dollars more.”
Is this true, Mark? Thought it a good idea to take a swipe at journalists given your pathetic reasons the day before for not knowing when you knew what you knew?
But, yep, here he is again last night: “I get huge amounts of information every single day. It’s a question from journalists who probably have a lot more time on their hands than me.”
Please tell us, Mark, that your media advisers begged you to stay way the fuck clear of this topic? For ever more? They did! Luckily, then, we have a spare dunce cap for you!
Looks good, mate! Tap it on tight as we listen to Melissa Downes finish last night’s short report with an editorial flourish and we praise her professionalism for not smirking just a little bit even though she might have been entitled to: “The Minister did not publicly disclose the blowout and only admitted it after being questioned at a press conference.”
Won’t you please stay home, Mark Bailey. Won’t you please stay home.
The Bug will not be making any more predictions about when this topic will next be pushed by the LNP’s Mount Coot-Tha branch – sorry, Nine News Brisbane – but we’ll watch tonight’s 6pm bulletin with interest.
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