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Why it matters that Greenpeace lied and the press doesn't seem to care : Comments
By Graham Young, published 12/1/2006Graham Young asks why mainstream journalists have accepted Greenpeace's claims to be rammed when they are obviously the aggressor.
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We would all like to see an improvement in journalistic standards, I'm sure. But if we're going to talk about the reporting (or non-reporting) of lies, let's look at the lies that really matter. The world is an infinitely more dangerous place because we went to war on the back of lie after lie. Surely this at least rates a mention in an an article such as this.
"...links to all the relevant information have been helpfully gathered together by Jennifer Marohasy"
Wow! Hardly an objective source. Jennifer Marohasy makes it her life's work to find fault with every reputable environmental scientist and conservation group she can. I've heard her on RN not that long ago arguing, in the face of overwhelming scientific consensus, that global warming is a natural phenomenon and not a man-made one. As pointed out by Audrey, she's just not a credible source. She may or may not be corporately sponsored, who knows, but she is very definitely and most unashamedly the mouthpiece of big business.
Talking of exposing lies, why not get to the bottom of the Japanese Government's duplicity regarding whaling. What they're doing is not scientific research. It's barbaric slaughter dressed up in lies to get around international whaling bans. Why not mention this lie, Graham?
I'm a Greenpeace supporter and a tax-payer and I don't hold this incident against Greenpeace. I don't particularly care who rammed who. I'm just glad they're out there - doing the job that our government is too spineless or too disinterested to take on. We can pull out all stops and send the Defence Force after a few harmless asylum seekers, no problems, but when whales are being killed cruelly and indiscriminately in Australian waters it all seems a bit too hard.
Go for the lies by all means Graham, but go for all of them.