As the Christmas Cheer begins to roll in and all your regular media commentators depart leaving the Leila McKinnons and the Samantha Armytages of the world to take over, and stories about the best christmas lights or the post-Christmas sales start to dominate, the media news cycle tends to die. A lot.
Excepting a major disaster, like a tsunami, now is about the time that the stories that wouldn’t really get a run seem to dominate the news.
