Antinuclear

Australia’s climate suffers while our media is slack

To return briefly to last month’s theme of MEDIA – do Australians realise how slack our mass media is?  The big polluters and nuclear lobby don’t need a conspiracy or even their continued high-powered spin to the media.

They can rely on the slackness of Australia’s mainstream media. For example, apparently Australia’s iconic love of “larrikinism” , (possibly combined with large journalistic ignorance of climate change), was enough for the National Press Club to give Lord Monckton the status of a serious scientist.

It is indeed a worry, when this (?) prestigious media event is used at best to give journalists a laugh, at worst, when the unscientific nature of Lord Monckton’s standing and claims are presented as serious.

February 4, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews