The Media Monitors’ Top 20

Everything old is new again as Mark Vaile, Peter Costello and Alexander Downer congregate around the middle of the list, talkin’ ‘bout the good times, the trips, the parties, what could have been, what still might be?… enough to bring a tear to your eye.

Climate Minister Penny Wong up to second on the list after the “was that it?” response to the Green Paper — after that success in throttling public interest or comprehension maybe they should rush the White Paper’s release to coincide with, say, the 400m freestyle final in Beijing? Just a thought.

Plastic bags, arts censorship and climate response get Peter Garrett moving up the list, while the relaunch of www.greenvehicleguide.gov.au, which has been around for years but now has an extra (mostly empty) column of numbers gets Albo up the list (just remember no-one can fool the meeja!)

All relatively quiet on the talkback front as politicians take a backseat to the papal party, although Penny Wong makes her first appearance in the list in a muted response to a muted Green Paper.

Such a big week, we’ve got three celebrities — Spiritual power thumps temporal power for once as the Pope gets 75% more coverage than our Heath, the scariest character with a permanent smile since David Gest reconfirms the talent we have lost, and now that Big Brother is finally over could someone please tell us, what the … was all that about?