In May 2020, the ABC’s Media Watch host Paul Barry dedicated two programs to attacking the Australian’s Sharri Markson (then at the Daily Telegraph) for reporting intelligence analysis that pointed to the virus that unleashed a pandemic on the world having escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan. He also had a snarl at Rowan Dean, the editor of The Spectator Australia who had the temerity to point out on Sky TV that everything pointed to a lab leak.