Mark Carney had clearly been thinking about becoming prime minister of Canada for quite some time before it happened. To say the least, this wasn’t some spur of the moment decision. So, it is some kind of minor mystery that he managed to wander into a press conference in London, England on Monday and come off like a brittle, entitled arriviste.

Important disclaimer: I am quite certain that your average voter doesn’t give a hoot whether politicians are nice to journalists or vice versa, and I’m not suggesting the average voter should. But the two major parties’ ongoing media travails speak to much bigger issues.