Angela Shanahan continues to get it wrong, but at least it won't be stuffing up my Saturday morning anymore

The last item in "The Diary" in the media section of today's Australian was so good it roused me from my sickbed to share it:

ANGELA Shanahan is distressed to have been dumped as a columnist for The Canberra Times. On Monday the new editor, Mark Baker, sent her a note sacking her. Shanahan, wife of The Australian's political editor Dennis Shanahan, describes Baker's actions as "censorship" because of her views on the ACT's gay marriage bill, which stirred up a lot of debate among readers. "This would be the equivalent of The Australian sacking Janet Albrechtsen or Phillip Adams, just because some people didn't like them," Shanahan tells Diary. Baker says he discontinued Shanahan's column after reviewing all the opinion writers. Baker, a former deputy editor, opinion editor and diplomatic editor of The Age, became editor last month following the departure in March of the contentious Michael Stevens, editor since 2001. Baker, who promises to reverse the Crimes' circulation decline, says Shanahan had two years writing on the paper and it was time for some "fresh voices". He denies Shanahan's conservative politics have anything to do with his decision. "She is a person with forthright views and she has every right to express them," Baker tells Diary. "But I have other people who come from a similar direction to her writing for the paper."

Yes, "Censorship"! Oh, how I laughed.

Take some personal responsibility, Angela. It's because you're not very good.