On Monday 27 March the ABC television program 4 Corners ran an expose on its own shallowness and shabby journalistic standards.

The ABC personnel who put this piece of tabloid television together probably imagined they were crafting an expose of the residential property industry.

It could have been that if the ABC had adhered to quality journalistic standards – but those days are long since past, it seems.

It was titled “Agents of Influence” and it purported to expose the dirty hidden secrets of the industry that manages the sale of homes.

There were a few problems however.