A degeneration of moral and educational standards amongst journalists parades itself in mendacious reportage such as that well illustrated by this excerpt:
James Woodford in The Sydney Morning Herald, January 13, 1996:
A TRAGEDY is beginning to unfold for the creatures of the zoologically rich Macquarie Island, with climate change in the Southern Ocean occurring at the fastest rate on earth. Scientists now fear that a 94 per cent crash in the population of rock hopper penguins on New Zealand’s Campbell Island is about to occur at Macquarie. . The increase in ocean temperatures may have forced the krill into colder waters and, because the birds are so small, they are unable to reach it, said Ms Cindy Hull, a zoologist at the University of Tasmania. She is now concerned that the collapse in rock hopper numbers may be a warning that numbers of the island’s three other penguin species may soon also be affected by climate change.
Tasmania Parks & Wildlife website yesterday:
Macquarie Island is recognised for its rich and diverse animal life. Around 3.5 million seabirds arrive on Macquarie Island each year to breed and moult. Most of these are penguins. No accurate counts of rockhopper penguins are known; estimates range from 10,000 to 500,000 breeding pairs.
It is truly no wonder that the average person, according to recent polling, places journalists below (even) politicians in matters of trust...they inflate, deflate, manipulate, distort and plain lie about all manner of things in order to push their ideological agendas and those of their political bosses/heroes/idols.
Unfortunately the education of journalists under a post-modern, neo Marxist University regime has rendered truth and honesty 'bourgeois' attributes and subsequently resulted in reportage few people believe in any longer. I pity those rare few who still honour the role of objectivity in journalism.
Orwell showed how control of language translated into control of the population...welcome to our brave new world.
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