Election Fever

At least that's what the papers and the pollsters would have us believe but I don't think so.

A quick look at the Top 5 articles from the 4 Fairfax papers on the Web at lunchtime only had one election story making the top 5 across all 4 of them. And that single story only came in at No. 5 in The Age.

Forget the election! Based on the Top 5 list, the scintillating topics of a 30-second boxing match, an intruder, a fake iPod t-shirt, a disappointing city in Indonesia (but sadly, not a disappointed horse), a car-crash, Jason Akermanis getting sacked and even a maid receiving an inheritance all tickled our fancy more.

Clearly everyone is finding this election pretty dull and there's still 5 more miserable weeks to go. Wouldn't it be great though if the media paid attention to their own sites and noticed just how uninterested we are in this election?

Maybe they could stop covering it for the next 5 weeks! I might even buy the paper...