In this binary dystopia we all now inhabit, either the ABC's chief economics correspondent Emma Alberici is a noble martyr (though nobody's sacked her, let alone killed her) of Liberal/National hostility to the public broadcaster, and their calculated degradation of it; or a leftist actor abusing her taxpayer-funded platform to crusade for regime change. One – the one you hold – is right, the other is wrong.

Ours is a Third Way (bearing little resemblance to Tony Blair's): that Alberici's majestic self-importance is inversely proportionate to her aptitude. Such a pathos has to catch you up.