How is it even possible that such a picture could suddenly galvanise tens of millions around the world to open their borders and admit who knows who within their territories? And you know how? Because the newspaper readers and television-news watchers of the world have not been shown any of the horrors that have been routine over the past half decade in every war zone in the Middle East. For any of us who have been paying attention, the picture was so completely lacking in newsworthiness that it has taken me by utter surprise to find that this one photo now has millions of people round the world ready to open their frontiers to just about anyone with a story to tell about their needs for refuge. Such ignorance is not an accident. It is the consequence of having come to depend on a media so singularly dishonest that it has made Bill Shorten competitive and given Barack Obama two terms as president.