It would seem that overseas scientists are not alone in "embroidering facts" to suit their agenda.

Last week TV1 - with great fanfare - ran a "news story" that an iceberg had been spotted off the coast of Stewart Island. The "glaciologist" "using satellite technology" claimed that it was "proof" that Antarctica was crumbling.

Anyway, the upshot is that a helicopter was sent out to investigate and it was found to be AN UNDERWATER REEF!

Guess what? TV1 have ignored this information and not reported it. Perhaps they are hoping that nobody will actually notice their "mistake" and continue to run round in circles shouting "the sky is falling, and we must pay the UN bucketloads of money to stop it happening".

Here's the link: Radio New Zealand News : Stories : 2009 : 11 : 24 : Good reef! It wasn't an iceberg after all

The big news everywhere is the IPCC scientists' emails scandal. It is on every news source throughout the world, but not here in NZ. Our obsequious news media continues to "dumb the news right down" and only follow their master - the government's - narrow agenda.