What role for journalism if facts no longer count?

The longest election campaign in 50 years had crept quietly to its midpoint when I decided to ignore the stultifying protocols imposed during such events by the hard-working professional control freaks at campaign headquarters and rang Mark Textor to ask him to come on my podcast.

I told Tex, the Liberal Party’s pollster, that I wanted to talk about polling, which was entirely true. I did want him to explain the intricacies of polling to our listeners. But the reason I reached out was because something was bothering me about the 2016 campaign and I didn’t trust that our field evidence was telling us what we needed to know.