Pauline Hanson’s intolerance towards reporters who challenge her preferred, self-crafted reality was on full display at her National Press Club appearance on Wednesday.

Hanson shouted she would never again talk to Guardian Australia after insulting reporter Sarah Martin, who had asked about the employment of the senator’s daughter.

Then the pumped-up Hanson vowed to shred SBS and the ABC.

She was spitting anger.

The media union has condemned Hanson’s attack on Martin, and Anthony Albanese said parties seeking to exclude media organisations or cut public broadcasting were misguided.

This in not just Trump inspired. Control of news items about her has, for 30 years, been vital to Hanson’s political ambitions and her rampant ego.

She has few policies that are detailed and soundly costed because the party she founded, One Nation, is all about her and how she speaks to and for some Australians. Any distractions from her voice – such as the crackling intrusion of facts – deflates her political appeal.

So she gets angry, in........

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