Palm oil, Starsuckers and Media Manipulation
What hive Flaming Amy Winehouse and Guy Ritchie’s self-inflicted black holes have in common?
Both stories appeared in the pages of tabloids in Britain. Neither is true.
Both incidents were false tips phoned showbiz news in the newspapers by the makers of the new documentary “Starsuckers,” to see if they could be used without verification of facts. The fact that this is part of the film’s argument that the culture of celebrity journalism has standards and values distorted society compromised.
It is sad that the media are guilty of the same level of journalistic negligence on the lobby anti-palm oil, which often use stories to be powered by “environmental NGOs, including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth (FOE) on palm oil and deforestation without checking the facts.
Palm Oil and the Crowned Prince of Hyperbole
Heads up, folks. Sean Whyte, executive director of Nature Alert is a new rampage. Write to news media in Malaysia is a man in his crusade against palm oil, Mr. Whyte was not helping his cause with his strange penchant for exaggeration. In fact, is rooted in its need for exaggeration that Mr. Whyte, the undisputed leader of the environmental Crowned Prince of hyperbole.
If Mr. Whyte is the self-appointed spokesman for the environmental movement, it should not make the movement smooth.
Mr. Whyte wrote: “What happens is that after millions of years of freedom of hectares of rainforest logging in the eradication process of making tens of millions of wild animals, the industry of palm oil is ultimately responsible for the death and destruction are obvious caused relatively easy, until now. ”
Deforestation, Palm Oil and the Frankenfish
In 2002, the United States have discovered the existence of the Giant Snakehead in a lake in Maryland. Instead of joy at the presence of a new species and one of sport’s most impressive freshwater table fish in Asia, has launched a racket under the threat environment and spawning, as the claims, “can″ walk on its fins and “living in day-to-country”.
They argued that the voracious Snakehead would devour everything in its path and be a major threat to the ecosystem. It may some truth to this claim as one of the serpent’s head and voracious predators that would make some native species extinct.