Or is it that those on the left aren’t meant to be “sipping”? That only the conservatives can drink daintily while the lefties are all brutes and gulp noisily?

Ah, cultural stereotypes! Gotta love them!

@jason: Fortunately I’ve avoided all current affairs TV so far this week — and my world has not yet imploded. If there was a difference in “confrontationalist attitude” such as you describe, that’s inexcusable. Since the ABC is now monitored by all manner of bias-detecting organisations, stopwatches in hand, I daresay we’ll soon see any complaints made public.

Bias is such a difficult thing to assess, though. I’m not saying your perception was necessarily wrong. Indeed, there’s a good chance that an interviewer will give the new boy an easy go, consciously or not — though they should try not to let that happen! But one person’s “insightful interview” is another’s “bias”, depending on how the questions and ideas accrete into existing views.

Opinion is a snowflake…

Apparently John Howard asking the Opposition to have a tax policy is “negetive” campaigning.

Oh well whatever. I need a rock to climb under.