Channel Nine’s resident lego-head, Ray Martin, is on Radio National Breakfast right now getting all righteous and sanctimonious about Nine’s free speech rights being infringed by the yanking of the TV debate feed. Apparently the Liberal Party’s actions threaten this country’s “democracy.” Wanker.

I’ve got no sympathy at all for his whinging; I do agree that in a perfect world Nine should be able to run the debate footage with whatever pathetic gimmick they want, but the simple fact is that Nine were offered the feed on the condition that they did not run the worm. They ran the worm. The feed was pulled. Sounds fair to me.

And while we’re talking about worms, for all the media’s crapping on about how the worm is a meaningless gimmick it hasn’t stopped supposedly quality broadsheets from splashing those meaningless numbers all over their (gimmicky pink) front page.