Although Sunday Night did a very good story on the antivaccination campaign's cost in lives, it now looks like they will do a follow up that takes the antivaxxer line, if the appearance in the ads of Australia's least accurate journalist Mike Munro is any guide. Munro is a gutter journalist of UK proportions. His guiding principle is that if it doesn't have drama, then the truth has to go to create some. We'll see...
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