The Adelaide press gallery are bemoaning that the first One Nation MP ever elected in South Australia, Sarah Game, did not engage with them once during the election campaign - and Rikki Lambert explores whether the mainstream media deserve the silent treatment.
Flow also sought to interview Ms Game but were refused that opportunity no less by her mother and SA party leader and senate aspirant, Jennifer Game.
But do the voters care?
It would appear not - at least for enough voters to get One Nation elected - given hiding from accountability in the media didn't dent Game the Younger's tilt at office, late though it was.
For some time it was expected that Game the Senior would run for the Legislative Council but when the federal and state election dates virtually converged, barely 2 months apart, Game the Younger was elevated to run in SA's most winnable seat, and Game the Senior soldiered on for the Senate.
What frightens the media and perhaps the majority of voters - to whom the Games need not appeal - is that their influence on voter opinion is waning.
One Nation plays a mean social media game now, with their polished cartoon satire of the major party MPs - and their minor party competition - witty and popular. The late John Clarke may be turning in his grave to think that the torch of the Clarke and Dawe narrative of the Howard-Costello era 'schoolboy' satire is now carried by schoolmistress Pauline.
Voters are sceptical of the mainstream media seeking to propel certain candidates or parties into power due to their own biases, and this is a welcome development.
Questions are often posed selectively of particular candidates to get a reaction in the mainstream media's 'gotcha' electioneering that debases politics and fails to inform or indeed educate voters on important election concerns such as interest rates, inflation, employment and international relations.
A classic example is the Adelaide media's hit on One Nation's candidate for Spence, Linda Champion, for a historical 'blackface' image not featuring her, but her husband. Whilst international media fastidiously treat Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's history in this regard as a non-event, somehow it rates as an important political topic in Adelaide. Champion's pre-selection is canny at best, and cunning at worst, given the former Labor MP for Spence - now a state MP - was Nick Champion, and One Nation is campaigning on electing a new 'Champion' for Spence.
But I digress.
One Nation have policies on a Royal Commission on the handling of COVID-19 and investigating more dams for water security. Neither of these have been explored with vigour by the media.
Perhaps a stint in the candidates' sin bin from the likes of the Games might steer the media back off the commentary junk food and back to the healthy political debate on policy that better serves swinging and rusted-on voters alike.