I don't think I'm the only one to notice that the tone of editorial comment about both the government and the opposition has changed. Six, even two months ago Julia Gillard couldn't pull a trick and even the ABC was reticent to criticise Tony Abbott further than asking for more policy.
But all that seems to be changing.
A Barry Cassidy piece on the Drum today was interesting not so much for the piece itself (although I love Barry's work) as for the comments at the end that indicated almost a relief that some parts of the media were, to put it in the words of one commenter, "no longer worshiping and emulating the Murdoch model".
On top of that, increasing numbers of the commentariat are scrutinising Tony Abbott more closely and, even those sympathetic to the Coalition, are wanting more. Articles from Laura Tingle and Drag0nista have highlighted this and Bernard Keane in Crikey yesterday (easily the best journalism around) stated that "there’s a growing sense that Abbott, successful as he has been, has come off the boil in recent weeks".
And recent opinion polls have, from a position of unassailable strength, started to wobble with Newspoll giving the Coalition 1% TPP less in the last two outings. Now I'm enough of a statistician to know that two data points don't make a trend but it's safe to say the climb in Coalition TPP has halted ... unless, of course, Labor have one of their implosion moments which have been all to frequent.
The next Newspoll is due very soon - could be very interesting.
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