Our media balancing act based on parallel lines is heading for a fall

IT snatched defeat from the mouth of apathy, did the no side in the referendum.

It got the votes of only 40% of the people who voted, and it helped a lot of people stay at home.

Before you suggest I have a vested interest here, let me tell you I may be the most uncompromised commentator in this country on this matter. Not only had I no hand — not even a little finger — in the creation of the yes strategy, but I didn’t vote either. They say on the radio that if you don’t have a polling card, you just bring your passport to the polling station along with a utility bill and you’re sorted. It didn’t work for me. So I didn’t help the yes side in any way.