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"The Climate Change Authority seems to have poked a very sensitive possum at
News Corp with its succinct if not especially revealing report on
misinformation as a “climate policy risk”.
Released with little fanfare by the CCA on August 24, it took
The Australian
almost a full fortnight to crank up its anger machine, leading its Friday
front-page headlines with the screamer: “Bowen’s Ministry of Truth is here to
tell you that energy policy is going perfectly.”
Naturally, the exaggerated protest was accompanied by a plodding commentary,
entitled “Orwellian crusade to silence the critics and the naysayers.” And
there was the obligatory editorial leader, warning of “the danger of shutting
down dissent.”
As if.
Your correspondent has a couple of disclosures to make on this matter – see
below. But it’s fair to say the absence of a grotesque editorial caricature of
federal climate change and energy minister Chris Bowen as Stalin, or Mao, or
Xi, did leave a sense of disappointment.
Surely Saturday’s
Weekend Australian will reheat the atrocity? Guess we can
expect the US-based media outlet to bleat in endless column centimetres about
defending the right of free people to decry “foreign-owned” renewables
investors blanketing prime Aussie farmland with their wind and solar
“factories”. Etc. Etc.
Outrage, of course, is central to the business model for the 15th-most popular
news website in the country in Australia. Last month’s readership was half
Guardian Australia’s, which must hurt, and it even lagged
The West
Australian and
The New York Times, according to IPSOS.
At News Corp, sensitivity to discussions about “misinformation” on climate
matters is raw because few organisations have so consistently campaigned over
decades to stymie climate action – possibly anywhere on the planet."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
