The Daily Speculator

Well, it appears that our media have abandoned all pretences of journalism, and entered instead into the divination game. For the past week, we have had speculation, assertion and equivocation over this fairly innocent comment from the PM

I've had some discussions with Andrew Wilkie, we will have some more discussions in the future and it's not my intention to engage in running commentary in any way while those discussions are happening.

Somehow, the author of the article interpreted this to mean

JULIA Gillard has backed away from her promise to introduce a mandatory pre-commitment scheme for poker machines.

Sadly, he was not alone.

A fairly complete list of the some of the ridiculous speculations masquerading as news can be found here.