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# Media Dung-beetles
- URL: https://goodoil.news/media-dung-beetles/
- Published: 2019-08-26T22:30:48.000Z
- Updated: 2019-08-26T01:34:42.000Z
- Author: idbkiwi
- Tags: Climate Change, Media, NZ, World Climate change, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

Fun fact for a Tuesday: There is no professional standard low enough, none, that *Stuff* cannot plunge beneath. They are positively subterranean news-disseminators, Media dung-beetles.

Saturday’s offering *“As fires rage in the Amazon, international pressure mounts on Brazil to take action”* is a perfect exhibit of their mendacious outlook to all things climatey and begs the question; if the world is truly facing imminent climate cataclysm, why do they lie about it and exaggerate so much?

*Stuff*, August 24, **2019:**

> “The Amazon rainforest is one of the world’s best defenses against climate change and it’s burning at an alarming rate.”

*Otago Daily Times*, December 5, **1912:**

> “Forest fires destroy thousands of trees every year in Amazonas.”

Yes; it’s over a century since New Zealanders were informed about the yearly fires in the Amazon. But it’s all ‘new’ and ‘alarming’ to *Stuff.*

In an attempt to highlight the gravitas of the fires *Stuff* reproduces a NASA-supplied satellite image but neglects to include the NASA-supplied caption stating **“fire activity was slightly below average in the Amazon Basin”.** Perhaps the omission was an honest \[cough\] mistake but; methinks not:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/91db436b1b597cff9f7c861d483a894db1d7aea355e27b5861f582bca31cbf36.png)

Trained and skilled journalists might have fact-checked the screed, it’s easy enough to do because there’s a lot of publicly available data accessible, available almost instantly, at the click of a button:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ed2e66ce9a6014471468bdf42cf4f3d896408d0e32a594b9ae09053d25e92da3.png)

But that’s not *Stuff’s* style. Tis far easier to wallow in a permanent state of ‘alarm’ than to seek the truth, even if the truth means as little as lifting a finger.