BBC Caught Lying About The Great Barrier Reef AGAIN
The BBC have been forced into yet another climbdown over one of its many misleading articles about the state of the planet, and in this case, the Great Barrier Reef
It had claimed the reef was suffering the biggest decline ‘on record’, but as so often is the case, had decided not to include relevant, and very important, information.
A complaint by a reader was upheld by their Executive Complaints Unit:
Complaint
On the basis of a new report by the Australian Institute of Marine Science, the article said parts of the Great Barrier Reef had “suffered the largest annual decline in coral cover since records began nearly 40 years ago”. A reader complained that, taken along with the headline, this conveyed a misleading impression because the article omitted the information that, in the year 2023-24 coral coverage had been at a record high, and that in the current year it had been the fourth-highest on record. The ECU considered the complaint in the light of the BBC’s editorial standards of accuracy.
Outcome
The ECU agreed that the omission of the context referred to by the reader resulted in a misleading impression of the gravity of the reef’s current condition, but noted that the article had subsequently been amended to include appropriate context. The ECU considered this sufficient for it to consider the issue of complaint to have been resolved.
That the article was ammended is like shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted. The damage has been done, and the gullible will believe it without ‘fact checking’, and repeat it to anyone who will listen.
But this is what agencies like the BBC rely on. People NOT checking.
Is this just incompetance, or a deliberate policy of publishing what could be considered an outright lie to perpetuate the climate scam?
You can see the complaint page for this here bbc.co.uk
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About the author: Andy Rowlands is a British university graduate in space science and Principia Scientific International researcher, writer and editor who co-edited the 2019 climate science book ‘The Sky Dragon Slayers: Victory Lap‘