I rarely weigh in on forums online. The sheer volume of personal vitriol that accompanies perfectly reasonable commentary makes it an unpleasant chore, no matter how weighty the issue. Even responding to a mild Facebook provocation can cue fanatical responses, which begs the question really. The middle ground from which I usually reply is an increasingly diminishing space in the cyber-world and it is the relatively covert nature of the latter that guarantees that anyone with an opinion can sally forth. That is not necessarily a good thing - democratic or not - there is surely some obligation on the correspondent to make an effort to be informed. More often than that, it is not the case.

A few days ago I sent a response to an article that appeared in local Sydney daily which, while certainly dressed up as entertainment, was nevertheless a poorly thought through attack on a popular TV comedy. So I wrote this short note. My apologies for the quality of the screenshot.