ClimateGatekeeping at the ABC
Gatekeeping at the ABC: CRU emails insignificant says Jon Faine
Jon Faine on gatekeeping at
774 ABC Melbourne.
774 ABC Melbourne morning presenter Jon Faine said today that he made a deliberate decision not to cover the revelations contained in the emails from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia.
He acknowledged that “what we leave out is often as important as what we put in” and said that he decided not to cover the emails because he thought they were not significant.
He made the frank admission in response to a caller who said she thought he would have covered the email story on his program.
Jon Faine said that the decision to include or exclude items is made on the basis of personal opinion.
“We make decisions every day [based] on our own opinions about what we think are the main stories. And what we leave out is often as important as what we put in, and that was my judgement of this issue,” Faine told “Sandra of Berwick” this morning.
“That was my assessment of whether this was actually of any significance or not, and I decided that it wasn’t and we wouldn’t spend time on it.
“It suits the conspiracy theorists beautifully,” he said.
While he acknowledged that some of the scientists at the centre of the controversy are on the IPCC, he said he thought the story had been given more prominence than it deserved.
“It was a small, even a tiny fragment of a sidebar of a secondary issue to the edge of the periphery of something people were talking about other than the main game. That’s how I saw it,” Faine said.
And another thing…
Not being Australian, I was not aware of the context but my impression that the programme host was biased against him. This article confirms that impression. Who are the real denialists?
Pity that the word that Sandra didn’t use was “disgraceful”; that’s what his decision was.
[...] weeks ago Australian Conservative was the first to report how Melbourne talkback caller “Sandra of Berwick” drew the admission from ABC presenter [...]
[...] joins Jon Faine who last week denied the significance of the emails and admitted that he had deliberately censored [...]
[...] of any significance or not, and I decided that it wasn’t and we wouldn’t spend time on it. It suits the conspiracy theorists beautifully… It was a small, even a tiny fragment of a sidebar of a secondary issue to the edge of the periphery [...]
I thought only the US media was blatantly left wing liberal! Obviously, objective journalism needs an international obituary. Jon Faine has exposed his own personal bias regarding this highly charged issue, and bully for Sandra of Berwick for calling him on it with her pithy questioning!
Jon Faine thinks, Wow?
It’s exposed what we already know about the ABC. The days of it being in any way an objective news source are well and truly gone.
Thank you Sandra from Berwick!
I used to have a lot of respect for JF. He has become a joke.
C’mon, Jon… let’s look at the data… let’s look at the facts.
Are you scared of the truth?
“it doesn’t add to the debate” … hahahaha
‘….Jon Faine said that the decision to include or exclude items is made on the basis of personal opinion…..
…. that is, whether suppressing a major story will benefit my political leanings.’
Sad that this is what the country has come to…
Very sad