False balance in media reporting on climate change is a big problem for one overarching reason: there is a huge gap between the 97percentt expert consensus on human-caused global warming, and the public perception that scientists are evenly divided on the subject.
Contrary to some media reporting on the topic, there was no significant increase in other areas such as Newtown.
There was a flurry of media reporting on the case and the states promised to do their bit for survivors.
Later, he added, "Serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California - so why isn't the media reporting on this?
In Australia, the media reporting on the IPCC in the only national broadsheet The Australian has been scant, and focused on misleading distortions of the report's warnings.
But anyone using that headline figure in the debate about the quality of media reporting on science and health should be aware of those limitations.
One repeated criticism of the western media reporting on the events in Rwanda in April 1994 is that it was all just too little, too late.
A young woman has received kudos on social media for offering a more flattering mugshot to media reporting on her escape from a Sydney police station.
"The government should drop the charges against Dandois and Bourrat as a first step toward ending the gag on foreign media reporting on Papua".
Only an obstinate, radical few doubted what the big stories were, or questioned the authority of the media reporting on them.
With popular shows like RuPaul's Drag Race, and the poor media reporting on transgender celebrities, such as DJ Stephanie Hirst, students are sent the message that such attitudes are acceptable – even funny.
