Lewandowsky – Universtiy of Western Australia Graham Readfearn complains at DeSmogBlog that climate bloggers including myself are: “using FOI to rifle through scientists’ daily emails. … [FOI] is a law which appears to have been hijacked by climate science sceptics… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘ANU’
Last words on ANU FOI
ANU have stifled any further attempt to reach the truth in this matter, having (a) refused to comment any further through their media office; and (b) quoted nearly $40k to search through their documents for the further evidence I have… Read More ›
If you emotionalise the climate debate, expect scrutiny
And if you make exaggerated claims about AGW, expect scrutiny of those as well. I really didn’t want to spoil my breakfast by reading anything from extremist Clive Hamilton, but I had little choice, as it refers to the ANU… Read More ›
ABC finally corrects 2011 ANU death threat story
UPDATE: Marc has written to the ABC requesting they amend the sloppy and partisan wording of this update. We’ll see how far he gets… Thanks to Marc Hendrickx for this update, which now appears on the original 4 June 2011 story…. Read More ›
Media's double standards on threats
Chris Merritt writes about the threats endured by those on the other side of the climate debate and politics in general, which, naturally, are rarely reported or mentioned by our PC media, whose self-appointed job is to defend the climate… Read More ›
Media Watch's Holmes on The Drum
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
