They are insulted by the audacity of her age – a protester who became a worldwide superstar at the age of 15; they’re disoriented by her lack of regard for social niceties and particularly dislike that she’s given airtime and taken seriously. They don’t like her tone and intensity. “How dare you?”

I mean the article starts out on a sensible foot - she's an awful choice of spokesperson. I probably agree with 90% of what she has to say, but I'm not going to get as far as finding out. I bristle at celebrity at the best of times, never mind when some team of marketing people and managers keep shoving some blunt kid in my face.

ABC News on the air is okay.

ABC News website? Why? Just... why? Half the time you load it up, every second story is a human interest story about the struggles of being poor, disabled, a woman, or gay. And I don't mean a mix, I mean they seem to have a different theme for each day of the week. Tuesdays are Poverty Porn day, Wednesday Women's Woes, Thursdays it's a slate of disability inspiration porn that's so saccharine and maudlin that I can't read it... and I am disabled. Instead of having to pick the news stories that interest me, it's a struggle just to pick the actual news stories.