{"id":413591,"date":"2010-03-10T13:23:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5328"},"modified":"2010-03-10T13:23:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:23:42","slug":"climate-balance-urged-at-abc-by-amanda-meade-and-geoff-elliott-the-australian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/413591","title":{"rendered":"Climate balance urged at ABC by Amanda Meade and Geoff Elliott, The Australian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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THE chairman of the ABC, Maurice Newman, has told about 250 leading journalists, program-makers and managers at the ABC that the media had displayed “group-think” on the issue of climate change in a speech that led to a feisty exchange with senior journalists and forced managing director Mark Scott to try to smooth the waters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Describing himself as an agnostic on climate change, Mr Newman said climate change was an example “of group-think where contrary views have not been tolerated, and where those who express them have been labelled and mocked”.<\/p>\n

He warned ABC staffers that he would not tolerate anyone suppressing information, citing the fact that a BBC science correspondent knew for a month before the scandal broke of damaging emails at the University of East Anglia in Britain highlighting the politicised nature of climate science but did not report them.<\/p>\n

Mr Newman said the Guardian newspaper had noted that the moment climatology is sheltered from dispute, its force begins to wane.<\/p>\n

“Which raises an important question for a media organisation,” Mr Newman said in the speech obtained by The Australian. “Who, if anyone, decides what to shelter from dispute? And when?
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