Bravo, Piers Akerman, for angrily challenging the three snickering and sneering members of the journalist collective on the set of Insiders to fight for free speech. There was some noisy spinning of wheels in reverse after that justifiably furious outburst, but too little and too late. Journalists panting for their muzzle. And what also disgusts me - that pack-attack and group-think mentality which makes so much of Australia's media so intellectually lazy, complacent and incurious, and so prey to fashionable enthusiasms such as global warming. So Malcolm laughs at Piers as Karen laughs even harder, while glancing over to Barrie to check he's laughing, too. More on this issue in the Herald Sun tomorrow.