DD: Muslims are bad for you. Shopping bags are bad for you

That's not fake News, That's for real. The rest you got right. In "my" opinion. Then again, that list is "your" opinion.

I'm not saying you have it right or wrong. It's just your opinion & your opinion is as valid as mine or anyone else's. Cheers!

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yep diver dan

the abc is the champion of either partial or fake news. There 'fact' checker is simply a self stroking ego exercise. The facts they often leave out is astounding and all at tax payer expense.

I saw the news as it always is, after a green worker handing out how to votes at pre poll went quite psycho, at every other party, the cameras came, young bloke dressed from waste up in suit and tie, faded blue scruffy jeans below, asked had any thing taken place, all of us, amused by the madness we had witnessed said NO except the party that called him! that is how the factory we know as media works, inventions, prods in the right direct, but news making not reporting

JF Aus,
That degradation is a direct result form too many humans frequenting one place. Be it over population or as in the Lord Howe case or the GBR, mass tourism. Or an even more apt description would the quest for the Dollar by tourism operators & developers.
Fake News never focusses on the real thing, hence its description.

I'm being challenged. I'm not sure I can cope with that!

Has anybody read any books on dyslexia recently? I've read a couple. To cut a long story short, in one of them there is a very apt quote by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

“… Each torpid turn of the world has such disinherited children to whom neither what's been nor what is to come, belongs. For what comes next is too large and remote for humankind…”

So, how do any of us really know what is fake and what is real?

@ ttbn, If you think that news is “fake” news, it hardly matters that it might be “incomplete”.

Does it “hardly matter” that solutions to plastic are absolutely different to solutions for ocean food web devastation and marine animal starvation and islander under-nutrition, the latter involving increase in maternal mortality, septicaemia and NCD including Diabetes II?

I think the story if fake because the BBC knows damn well about devastation of North Sea Herring and Cod and fact once common fish and chips is no longer affordable as it used to be for poorer people.

Is the article about “effects of plastic bags on birdlife”, as you say ttbn?
The article does not mention plastic bags. Not a single mention. Nothing. Yet it’s such fake news it even has at least one person believing plastic bags are killing mutton birds (ttbn).

Why is there no photograph of plastic reportedly flushed out of just one bird, or any birds? Why have I never seen a toothbrush or peg washed up on the coast of Australia?

The “stuff” I am talking about involves mass starvation of mutton birds occurring along the east coast of Australia from Mackay to South Australia and around Tasmania (2000). Surely east coast Australia mutton bird death should have been included in the Lord Howe Island reporting.
N.B. this link, same biologist, Jennifer Lavers. Is the BBC remit giving this biologist a fair go?
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/dead-birds-not-just-a-freak-event-20131030-2wgzd.html

It’s the BBC and Aus ABC and major media non-reporting and gagging of impact of under-nutrition among seafood dependent island people, involving suppression of dire urgent need for solutions, that is an absolute disgrace.

Who controls a media reporters remit?
I challenge the BBC and ABC to debate the above and associated matters. Or can the BBC or ABC show justifiable reason why due reporting is not occurring