Paddy Manning

Inside The Australian's War on Science

tlambert | June 9, 2009

Paddy Manning worked at The Australian between 2004 and 2007, so has inside knowledge about their war on science: Then on May 9, 2007, apparently at the urging of son James, Murdoch announced News Corp would go carbon neutral by 2010. ... This put The Australian in a quandary. Mitchell's then 2IC, Michael Stutchbury, was still freely describing climate change as "bullshit" and joked after the announcement, "What would the Murdochs know?" (He is now the paper's economics editor.) What did The Australian do? In late 2006 Matthew Warren, former PR for the NSW Minerals Council, was appointed -…

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