“Dennis Comes Clean” or “How to not be a member of the media without really trying”

Published: August 9, 2007, 8:04 pm

UPDATE: Crikey reports that Martin O’Shannessy regrets his article supporting Dennis’ “Preferred PM” theory. Last night O’Shannessy, speaking on a panel that also featured psephologist Malcolm Mackerras and journalists Jack Waterford and Karen Middleton, told the on-the-record gathering that he very much regretted writing in support of the newspaper’s position, something he had done only at the urging of Dennis Shanahan, ”my mate Dennis”. Sometimes, ”you get too close to your customers,” O’Shannessy said. This was ”one of those times”. ”I did it and I was wrong. I’ll never do it again”, he said. Pity he did it in the first place. Now on with the original post… The old fella has been shuffling those little pieces of paper around on his desktop again. In today’s Daily Dennis he lets us in on a little secret: perception is everything when it comes to polls. I guess he’d

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