Sometimes a life without talk-radio does mean missing out on the fun.
Crikey have a fun snippet today:
Cosy Canberra: Politics in the ACT is nothing if not cosy. In fact, it’s so cosy you can’t even hide behind a false name on talkback radio. Canberra Times editor-at-large Jack Waterford was bemoaning the lack of talent on the Assembly backbench on ABC radio yesterday morning in the wake of drink-driving minister John Hargreaves stepping down. A listener who identified himself as “Ben†rang in, irate, to say Waterford was defaming the backbench – and more than a few people immediately recognised “Ben†as one Brendan Scott, son of former Labor federal MP Les and spouse of ACT Labor backbencher, Karin Macdonald. Liberal MLA Vicki Dunne, along with others, immediately rang the producer only to have presenter Alex Sloan outing Dunne on air for outing “Benâ€. It’s all cosy in Canberra.