If you're going to run away from Scott Morrison do it for the right reasons

This past week we have witnessed a spectacle that sums up everything that is wrong with our mainstream media. It was an embarrassment.

A media pack interviewing the Shadow Minister for White Folk, Scott Morrison, literally ran away from him mid interview.

Now I can think of many reasons to run away from Scott Morrison. In my view he is one of the worst types of racists. His mode of operating is to use xenophobic language to gain political favour with those who are predisposed to that way of thinking. He capitalises on fear and ignorance, in the process demonising those who are the most vulnerable. He is vile, so by all means, don't listen to him, don't interview him, don't give him airtime to pedal his lies and misinformation. Run a mile, as fast as you can.

Trouble is, the media pack didn't run for those reasons. It ran because it is more interested in political farce than any meaningful reporting. Their target was resident Labor Judas Clown, MP Joel Fitzgibbon, who they had just spotted with their wanker radars.

Now the day before Joel decided to be a smartarse and poke fun at party guidelines on how to respond to bad polling. Fair enough you might say. Good for a laugh. Bear in mind though, this is the same Joel Fitzgibbon that said we wouldn't be hearing anything more from him after Julia Gillard roundly defeated Kevin Rudd when Rudd took a tilt at the leadership. This is the same Joel that was constantly white-anting the leadership of his own party.

So how does has-been Joel try to make himself relevant again? By having a subtle go at the leadership of course! And it worked, because that's all our pathetic excuse for the fourth estate is interested in. Joel was rapt, pursued by the frenzied media - he even let slip "it's nice to be popular". I'm sure he's loving it.

Which brings me back to my first point. Mainstream political reporting in this country is, by-and-large, a complete joke. If they were serious Fitzgibbon and his ilk wouldn't get the time of day. We would get some meaningful analysis of policy. Maybe we would even get politicians held to account for what they say.

Instead we get clowns.