That is despite having a well-thumbed handbook that editors should be well aware of by now. The well-rehearsed game play is to make an exaggerated assertion, distort the science, stage a stunt for the cameras, spread fear and alarm and rev up the charity muggers needed to fund a huge multinational organisation. The result is generally uncritical media attention, despite the sky stubbornly failing to fall, and a useful rattling of the collection tins. The latest example is a spurious calculation by Greenpeace that New Zealand commercial fishing vessels destroyed up to 3000 tonnes of corals through bottom trawling in 2017-18.

https://www.miragenews.com/greenpeace-tactics-painting-unbalanced-view-of-1086636/

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