Jonathan Holmes, presenter of Media Watch, writes a lengthy defence of his team’s reporting of the ANU death threats story on ABC’s The Drum. You can read it here. The only point I am going to comment on is detail… Read More ›
Archive for May 2012
Carbon tax: $10bn up in smoke
It’s been said many times before, but it bears repeating again and again: The carbon tax will do nothing for the climate. Terry McCrann points out the blindingly obvious (to everyone except Julia Gillard and the Labor/Green government), namely that China’s… Read More ›
The Australian roasts Media Watch – again
Your humble correspondent gets another mention in an editorial in The Australian today: IT’S no surprise that the ABC’s Media Watch has no bite when it comes to scrutinising the national broadcaster’s own news coverage. On Monday night it lost its… Read More ›
Climate fears decrease with increasing scientific literacy
Who’da thunk it? The more you know about science, the less likely you are to worry about “global warming”. One of the great myths is that people are sceptical of the global warming scare because they are scientifically ignorant –… Read More ›
Chubb on ANU: 'no death threats except when journalists picked up the story'
The death threat saga has reached parliament, with questions being asked at a Senate Estimates Committee of Prof Ian Chubb, current Chief Scientist, but Vice Chancellor of the ANU until March 2011. Most amazingly, Chubb confirms there were no death… Read More ›
Durban climate agreement threatens to unravel
From the fantasy world of the ABC’s balanced reporting to the fantasy world of climate talk-fests, as the chances of globally agreed action on climate change have slipped further into the mire, with even the flimsy Durban deal looking shakier… Read More ›
ANU death threats: ABC's groupthink on climate
The Australian publishes no less than four separate articles dealing, either directly or tangentially, with the ANU death threat story, and focussing in particular on the ABC’s response to the release of the emails. Interestingly, the ABC’s response to the… Read More ›
ANU 'death threats' – ABC posts a correction
Which raises more questions than it answers: ANU emails Posted Thu May 24, 2012 4:13pm AEST News Online: On May 11, the ABC reported on the release under FOI of a number of emails relating to climate change received by staff… Read More ›
ANU 'death threat' story – a few final thoughts (for now)
UPDATE 3 (25 May 2012): Marc Hendrickx over at the ABC News Watch blog has picked up the baton, and is drilling down into what precisely happened at the ABC in relation to this story. See his posts here and here…. Read More ›
BREAKING: Media Watch
UPDATE: Marc Hendrickx finds links to Canberra Times articles which make the same claim as the ABC regarding the ANU. ABC1′s Media Watch covered the ANU FOI story in detail tonight. I’m not going to post in detail yet, but… Read More ›
