Switching off Gillard as she screams the house down Niki Savva notes a straw poll: Absolutely trashing the brand: Under her leadership the government has declared war on foreign workers, the media, miners, single parents, the rich, and business groups generally. Without producing any discernible benefit. And count Savva among the many journalists who believe Bob Carr lied in denying reports he'd given up on Gillard: Who believes Carr when he says he has not discussed the leadership with his colleagues, or any of his intimates? Nobody. Who believes he had never expressed an opinion on how the government was travelling? Again, nobody. Dennis Shanahan says even the crossbenchers and Greens seem to have stopped listening to Gillard, who couldn't even get them to save her media changes - and her leadership: The attempt to ram through contentious media reforms in just over a week failed on many counts: the detailed policy was hatched without real consultation; cabinet discussion was a farce; the policy itself was deeply flawed; the politics smacked of pointless vengeance from a dying government; Gillard personally took up the fight and failed; and all the antagonism remains. Coming after the quick-order policy and revenue failure of the mining tax and the xenophobic corruption of the temporary worker program, any collapse of the government's media reforms accentuates and personalises Gillard's failure of leadership.