Clearly spurred on by Mark Powell’s excellent piece this morning on the decline of its Sydney sister, The Age has given its ever-shrinking audience the perfect demonstration of just how juvenile, vindictive and fatuous the bias of the once-great Fairfax media is.

Prominently featured on The Age’s landing page this evening you’ll find this teaser:

Click through and the story changes completely:

Get that? Joyce had stepped into the fountain — “to help out an elderly woman who had fallen in“.