The Age has let us know what it thinks of people who live outside Melbourne (read inner-city Melbourne, as Age-types eschew anything that’s not in cycle-riding distance of the CBD) — and it ain’t pretty.

Accompanying a story on moves to provide boarding facilities that would enable country students to attend the selective, public Melbourne High School in South Yarra today was a cartoon that said more about the nasty and condescending attitudes of Fairfax media than any cartoon since Glen Le Lievre’s efforts that accompanied the ugly exercise in Israel-bashing that ended Mike Carlton’s career — the nasty and condescending attitudes...