“There’s an assumption that private funding must always be acknowledged because it’s dirty, while public funding never needs to be acknowledged, because it’s pure.” Michael Duffy from ABC Radio National Counterpoint made that comment yesterday … [Read more...] about Government Funding Corrupts
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
But Jonathan Holmes: Your Report Has Not Been Peer-Reviewed and It’s Wrong
LAST Monday on ABC TV’s Media Watch the sniggering Jonathan Holmes suggested that there was something wrong with Peter Ridd peer-reviewing my technical report ‘Plugging the Murray’s Mouth: The Interrupted Evolution of a Barrier Estuary’. Today I … [Read more...] about But Jonathan Holmes: Your Report Has Not Been Peer-Reviewed and It’s Wrong
Time to Investigate ‘Green’ Media Spin: Mark Poynter
BIASED media coverage of natural resource use issues should be fertile ground for the ABC's Media Watch, but despite efforts to draw their attention to this have displayed little or no inclination to cover it in the past. Then again, as some of the … [Read more...] about Time to Investigate ‘Green’ Media Spin: Mark Poynter
Time to Rethink Basic Assumptions about the Murray and the Planned Water Reform
TONIGHT the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Media Watch program put together a garbled defence of the consensus position on water reform and the Lower Murray, a position based on 'junk science'. The program omitted to declare that the … [Read more...] about Time to Rethink Basic Assumptions about the Murray and the Planned Water Reform
ABC Journalist Wendy Carlisle: Hatchet Job Exposed
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) repeatedly misrepresents the facts relating to important environmental issues and puts much effort into smearing those it disagrees with. Here is yet another example: And the ABC is funded by big … [Read more...] about ABC Journalist Wendy Carlisle: Hatchet Job Exposed
Murray-Gate: Some Questions for Media Watch
ABC News Watch is unsure of the motivation behind Media Watch's inquiries regarding my research on the Murray River. Based on their understanding, none of the 11 members of the Media Watch team have the scientific qualifications, or necessary … [Read more...] about Murray-Gate: Some Questions for Media Watch
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
