The media and the #libspill — covering themselves in glory?

Who put that disgrace Bernadi on my TV? No wonder I feel sick.

— SawHole (@SawHole) February 9, 2015

There’s nothing that the political media pack likes more than a bit of blood-letting.

The entire Canberra Press Gallery is on a sugar high at the moment and there’s no sign that they’re coming down soon.

A leadership crisis makes for good copy and it allows the all-news TV channels to flood the airwaves with blue-tie talking heads from dusk till dawn and then from dawn till dusk – (rinse and repeat).

@TonyAbbottMHR only talking to Ch 9 shows he just doesn't get it. He should talk to all the press not just his pet journos. #libspill

— Dame Susan Mary (@Susan39307640) February 8, 2015

They really only have one thing to say, but it has to be said again and again by as many people as possible with spin (rinse and repeat) and with varying inflections.

Then the tea leaves, the coffee grounds, the chicken entrails, the pigeon droppings and the contents of the ministerial chamberpots are pored over, poked at, sniffed, taste-tested, licked, chewed, sucked and spat out like so much cheap plonk at a Dan Murphy’s wine-tasting.

@chriskkenny:You serious ? can't have everything ! U liked style of K.R & J.G or the Rambling M.T who takes 5 minutes too say nothing ?

— Bill (@Bill77351106) February 8, 2015

But the audience (AKA, the punters, the voting public, the great unwashed) ends up being none the wiser.