"So here they encourage readers to happily assume nothing is happening at all, it's all a fake and a lie. "

Nope - they just research the particular media propagated bullshit distorted about each particular incident.

"they also failed to point out that..."

That's not their task in the very limited time they have - about 15 mins, once a week, for only a few weeks a year (The Show needs massive amounts of research to work!). The program is only watched normally by those Aussies intelligent enough to think for themselves, and only some of them watch the (two) non-commercial channels (ABC & SBS).

The program has run for many years, and has uncovered lots of plagiarism (these 3 stories have a bit of that too) and dubious journalistic practices.

"A reader could leave their article not knowing that, and assume all photos they see of such ice formations are faked. "

They are not responsible for fools - or the type of 'Fox Channels' viewers, who would never watch 'Media Watch' anyway cause they would call the show ... yeah, well the show regularly runs many of that sort of uneducated negative comments made about it, usually by red-faced journalists caught out.... :-)

It just doesn't really help in the long run for any cause ('Saint Al' is probably very pissed to discover he was conned too!) to use 'faked material' - some Mudcat posters have railed about that sort of thing in various 'Iraq' and 'US political' threads here many times before.... :-) remember the 'Photoshopped bombing photos'? Media Watch tracked down the faking of those too, and many others... :-)

The third story clearly shows just how distorted some things can get - and shows that 2 activists who do their utmost to save animals have been defamed, misrepresented, and are now the target of many death threats by stupid fuckwits who believe all the distorted bullshit they swallow from the media...