A senior economist has said the media should not have needled Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison into saying sorry for the slow vaccination rollout. Robert Carling, an expert in Australian government affairs and senior fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, said the media were playing a childish “gotcha” game with the prime minister. “Needling a politician to get them to use a particular word they would rather not use—in this case, ‘sorry,’” Carling told The Epoch Times. Carling said it was far more important that Morrison accepted that his government made mistakes and was accountable. “He has now said so, and that should be enough,” he said. “The media should hold him to account, not play word games.” The comments from Carling were made in an interview about the federal government bowing to pressure and yielding to state governments that ask for more lockdown financial assistance and come after Morrison apologised for …