DIARIES ARE NOT A TEXT!

OK -- I know I'm on holidays this week, but I just have to comment on the incessant referencing to the Latham Diaries as though it's some kind of political or journalistic text book.

The press have had a whale of a time publishing article after article based centrally on something written in the Latham Diaries.

He's even affecting Labor's opinion polls.

I've had enough!

It's narcoleptic muck-raking at its finest. Latham is no more than a burnt out, middle-aged ex-politician who has published a spate of stone-throwing comments while licking his wounds after a dismal political career.

When will news media realise that quoting Latham's comments as a basis for newswriting is not justifiable as NEWS?

Just let the man revel in his publishing royalties and wallow in his personal sorrow... let bygones be bygones and has-beens be has-beens.

Forget about him already!