It seems that "our" ABC has given up all pretence at being a quality news provider and is now openly a front for Greenpeace Nightly News.
On the NSW edition of the TV news this evening the lead item was the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology teaming up to tell us that climate change is real because we say so, now stop being do sceptical everybody and get with the programme. Then there was an item about a credit union buying a water licence so they can give more environmental flow back to the Murray River. This was followed up by the controversy about feral horses in the Snowy Mountains- that one's a bit tricky because they are animals that actually do damage to the environment but gosh they are so cute and we wouldn't want to shoot any to control their numbers.
I'm just guessing but about half the main news section was devoted to this sort of second order news.
At least neither Lara Bingle nor Michael Clarke got a mention, so there is some hope of journalistic redemption.
As my great grandfather used to say, "there is nothing new under the sun". Same kind of news here.
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