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Australian media lets the public down on Climate Change

This week –  disturbing examples of two serious flaws in Australian mass media.:

1. Failure of journalists to do their homework. The two items below both illustrate this. Neither Fran Kelly of ABC Radio, nor Miranda Devine (The Age) bothered toask Lord Monckton any of the hard questions – about his own credibility as a scientist, or challenging his statements on Climate Change.

2. Not only does the mass`media seem to believe that they must give equal weight to  ‘both sides’ of a story – this week they’ve gone further – not bothering to invite Australia’s scientific institutions to give their information on climate change.

It’s a worrying trend, when views like those of Lord Monckton are taken seriously by reputable journalists – (Climate Change as a front for a world-government conspiracy equal to Nazism)

January 28, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, Christina reviews, climate change - global warming, energy, media | Australia, climate change, climate change - global warming, energy