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The official position of the ABC July 14th, 2007
I will admit that I didn’t see the ABC’s screening of Great Global Warming Swindle (I have, however, seen the documentary in its earlier version online.) But:
The Great Global Warming Swindle does not represent the views of the ABC. It is an independent film and is only opinion.
Well, then what are the ‘views of the ABC’? As far as I am aware, nowhere in ABC’s charter does it say that it has to develop an official position on matters of political importance.
Certainly material screened on commercial networks does not require such a disclaimer - a few years ago Channel Nine screened The Truth Behind the Moon Landings, a predictable conspiracy theory documentary. But few viewers would have interpreted it as the ‘official’ position of Kerry Packer. It is only the ABC’s internal desire to encourage its own institutional gravitas that makes these sorts of preachy disclaimers necessary.
As an addendum: how silly is the special website for the program, and its attempt at encouraging ‘video feedback’? I’m sympathetic to the many ABC discussion forums for various programs. The text-only boards seem to be an effective and relatively popular feature of the website. But let’s keep our pants on - the ABC isn’t going to be YouTube anytime soon.
Previous thoughts on The Great Global Warming Swindle and the ABC.
Ah yes, the good old ABC, does that mean the ABC actually does support bestiality because I saw a documentary on it a few years ago? Anyhow, if you think this one from the ABC is bad you should check out what the Australian Psychological Society, the bastion of impartiality, have to say about climate change
Being sceptical about the problems is another way that people may react. The caution expressed by climate change sceptics could be a form of denial, where it involves minimising the weight of scientific evidence/consensus on the subject. Or it could indicate that they perceive the risks of change to be greater than the risks of not changing, for themselves or their interests.
http://www.psychology.org.au/publications/tip_sheets/climate/
Comment by rachy — 1/8/2007 @ 4:27 pm