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Thepunch.com.au - looks independent, doesn't it. Lots of writers from different backgrounds. Even a couple of token lefties for balance.

Think again.

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Murdoch Press Muddy Waters

This article on what The Australian has to say on climate change is both enlightening and frightening. It seems unlikely that Murdoch's minions say this sort of thing because they believe it - they're far too intelligent to take the noisiest of the denialist loons seriously. So why? Money, most likely - they're being paid to lie, and they really don't give a damn that their children and great grand children will suffer greatly for those bags of silver.

"In the discussion of climate change, the future of the Earth and of humanity are at stake. As we shall see, what The Australian has contributed on climate change under editor Chris Mitchell's watch is a frightful hotchpotch of ideological prejudice and intellectual muddle."



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/newspaper-wages-campaign-against-climate-change-science-20110903-1jr57.html