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Thread #100403 Message #2014886
Posted By: Bee
02-Apr-07 - 09:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Censorship over Polar Bears?
Subject: RE: BS: Censorship over Polar Bears?
Foolestroupe, I read the first two, and what I see is ABC Mediawatch debunking two photos which shouldn't have been used as they were, because the photos were misleading.
However, ABC also misleads their readers by not pointing out, with regards to the first photo (faked underwater iceberg), that real icebergs do in fact usually have much larger portions underwater than above. A reader could leave their article not knowing that, and assume all photos they see of such ice formations are faked.
In the case of the second photo, taken of perfectly safe polar bears in summer, and unfortunately used to falsely illustrate global warming in the Arctic, they also failed to point out that legitimate film has been taken of a drowning polar bear, and that there are many real signs and real effects of warming in the Arctic. So here they encourage readers to happily assume nothing is happening at all, it's all a fake and a lie. Tell it to the Inuit.