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Media under scrutiny – the need for vigilance

Christina Macpherson 5 Jan 2010 I was quite shocked at what happened in Australia over 2009, in the mainstream media’s coverage of  Climate Change. Probably because of Australia’s peculiar media monopoly situation, it was easy for the anti-scientific  point of view of the fossil fuel lobby to prevail.

The fossil fuel lobby’s extraordinary success was in creating an opinion climate of doubt and confusion about global warming.

This is a warning sign for Australia’s future. Thank goodness, we have the Internet, and many fine independent media and blog-sites. Australia’s younger generation has had a better science education, and they have access to independent media, as well as to the mainstream media, (which still does provide good scientific information, along with the  anti-intellectual rubbish of the likes of Ian Plimer.)

January 5, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews