FORMER Media Watch host Stuart Littlemore QC is of the opinion that an ABC website examining the coal-seam gas industry is factually wrong, in breach of the ABC code of conduct and written by journalists who appear biased against CSG.
In an opinion seen by The Australian, Mr Littlemore gives his view of the ABC's "data journalism" website titled Coal Seam Gas By The Numbers, and judges some of that data to be inaccurate.
In his opinion dated December 2, Mr Littlemore says: "My opinion is that the ABC's code was breached by, probably, the website's publication of at least three frankly false representations of fact, and by the inescapable inference that the motivation for such tendentious misstatements of fact was bias on the part of the persons producing the matter at issue (or a failure to observe the standard of impartiality)."
The website has been criticised as "riddled with factual errors" by the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association, whose chief executive David Byers sent a complaint about the site to ABC managing director Mark Scott last week.
The Australian
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