Media ‘impartiality’ on climate change is ethically misguided and downright dangerous
The Australian Press Council and Australian Communications and Media Authority should develop specific standards on climate change reporting, and guidance about how journalists can meet them, argues Denis Muller in this crossposting from The Conversation.
In September 2019, the editor of The Conversation, Misha Ketchell, declared The Conversation’s editorial team in Australia was henceforth taking what he called a “zero-tolerance” approach to climate change deniers and sceptics. Their comments would be blocked and their accounts locked.
His reasons were succinct:
Climate change deniers and those shamelessly peddling pseudoscience and misinformation are perpetuating ideas that will ultimately destroy the planet.
I recall a couple of “deniers” called Galileo and Copernicus were vilified and ostracised as heretics for challenging the “settled science” on the sun revolving around the earth. Mr Muller’s declaration that journos are either “believers” or wilful “deniers” has a whiff of the Inquisition about it. I offer Professor Peter Ridd, formerly of James Cook University, as Exhibit A..
So the media is now OUTRIGHT saying that they will censor people who have opinions that differ from those presented in the media?
It really scares me that this is how the world is turning out. There is so much evidence out there that flies in the face of global warming alarmists, but it is slowly and surely being buried. Even trying to research BOTH SIDES of the argument gets you labelled a ‘denier’. It’s absolutely disgusting.
We are meant to accept that a ‘general consensus’ is going to be right? Once upon a time the general consensus was that the Earth was flat, it took a few radicals to prove otherwise.
This is the greatest example of all history thus far of how controlling the flow of information can control the direction of human history.
@Scared who wrote: ‘There is so much evidence out there that flies in the face of global warming alarmists’
Care to share some please?