On the road to parrot purgatory with Paul Barry ...

Sorry, the pond's not on it, but if everyone loves it, then everyone is particularly silly. Nobody might also love it, but that's what the pond would expect of nobody ...

'I see nobody on the road,' said Alice. 
 'I only wish I had such eyes,' the King remarked in a fretful tone. 'To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance, too! Why, it’s as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!'

And so to a non-reptile aside to start the day.

There was Paul Barry last night, ranting and railing at Niki Savva, primarily for not approaching Tony Abbott or Peta Credlin for comment.

It was pathetic, extraordinary, unfair and unprofessional, we were told. And so on ... until at the very end, there was a glib, one line note However, Savva tells Media Watch she has no regrets.

In short, Barry did everything he complained about Savva doing, and then, with a thin veneer of cynicism, gave himself an out line remarkable for its insolent brevity and lack of insight.

It's only when you head to the story online that you see that the line links to a response by Savva.

But there was no clue to this in the show's presentation. No on air underlining and link ...

If Barry had been serious, why not practise what he had just preached at great length?

Why not get Savva on? Why not dedicate the whole of the show to the issue? What about that matter of pressure and bullying?

What would Barry make of that?

No doubt there were reasons the show decided not to engage. Perhaps it's because they wanted to keep room and make sure that they joined in the orgy of Warne-ism, and thereby score the requisite amount of click-bait trolling.

And then, along the way,  in relation to another matter, Barry and his show presented this, without comment, in a way that suggested endorsement ...

Jones is no Labor stooge?

Well there's a knockdown, blinding, flash of lightning insight.

But he is your classic climate science denialist, so why seemingly endorse, in a casual and flippant way, his idle chatter about modelling on climate change?

While you're at it, why not have a look at the real world ... you know, sometimes the modelling and reality might manage to coincide ...

There's more at the Graudian here, and there's more at The Independent here,  and the pond understands that the matter was discussed on Q and A, and so the ABC followed up with a story here ...

Yet the best that Media Watch can do is produce, and seemly endorse, a squawk by the parrot about climate science modelling ... because all modelling, like all cats, must be black in the dark ...

At one time, the pond used to marvel at the way that the reptiles got agitated about the show and routinely hurled abuse at it, with the dog botherer leading the charge.

But it would seem that this has now had the desired effect, such that the show will even throw a bit of shellgrit and corn into the parrot's cage to pacify him ...

Well if the pond wanted that sort of song and dance show, there are plenty of alternatives to Media Watch ...

Sharpen up, Mr Barry, sharpen up. Contrarianism for the sake of being contrary might put you on the road to parrot purgatory ...