One thing you have to do in spin doctoring is go with the flow. If the issue of the day (or millennia) is say, global warming, you don’t try and turn your issue into an alternative flavour of the month. You just hook your little wagon to that rollin’ freight train. So here’s a classic, [...]
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GLOBAL WARMING
Balance required in media coverage of global warming
Global warming is not just a big scientific, environment, economic, political and human story, it is also an interesting case study of what the media reports and doesn’t report. On Tuesday this week, the Australian carried an op-ed from legendary botanist David Bellamy in which he claims to have been marginalised because of his global [...]
READ MOREWhy you should learn to love the GFC
The GFC (global financial crisis) is a vital part of this great system of capitalism that we all seem to love, love in spite of ourselves or accept because we are simply at a loss to think of a workable alternative. Way back when this was a little downturn, George Bush said: “In a market [...]
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