Saturday, May 27, 2006
All the Lies and Propaganda the Hilo Tribune-Herald Sees Fit
Last Thursday, the 25th, my local paper the Hilo Tribune-Herald printed on its front page as a "news" story Greenpeace lies regarding genetically modified papayas. Apparently, some hippies wearing painter suits and cutting down a few papaya trees is big news on the state of Hawaii. As this story states:
Unfortunately for the mendacious Tribune-Herald, the editor and publisher of the bi-monthly Hawaii Free Press, Andrew Walden, is also a farmer and agriculture student at the University of Hawaii-Hilo. Walden has written a rebuttal to the Tribune-Herald's "new" story. Although, the Hawaii Free Press isn't available online, Walden's story is posted at the Hawaii Reporter:
Reading the mainstream media's "news" report on this and then Walden's response demonstrates how the media will lie and shill for the leftist political agenda that almost all journalism school graduates share.
KAPOHO -- The battle against genetically engineered foods arrived here Thursday when local farmers joined members of Greenpeace International to remove disease-resistant papaya from an organic farm.
"This is sort of the heartland for GE papaya. This is ground zero," Michelle Sheather, coordinator of Greenpeace's GE Campaign, said as 10 volunteers wearing protective hazardous-materials suits cleared a few trees from a roughly 400-square-foot area.
Terri Mulroy said about a week ago she discovered suspected SunUp papaya growing on the 9.1-acre organic farm she bought 18 months ago after moving here from Florida.
Unfortunately for the mendacious Tribune-Herald, the editor and publisher of the bi-monthly Hawaii Free Press, Andrew Walden, is also a farmer and agriculture student at the University of Hawaii-Hilo. Walden has written a rebuttal to the Tribune-Herald's "new" story. Although, the Hawaii Free Press isn't available online, Walden's story is posted at the Hawaii Reporter:
In a May 25 publicity stunt dutifully picked up on the front page of the Hawaii Tribune-Herald, West Hawaii Today and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Greenpeace operatives backed by photographers donned white full-body “haz-mat suits” (actually painters’ suits available at many hardware stores) and posed for the cameras.
They wrapped a small section of a 9.1 acre garden bought 18 months ago in Puna by anti-GM activist Terri Mulroy in red “biohazard tape” (available from mail-order sources) and then viciously hacked to death at least two perfectly good papaya trees, calling them “contaminated”.
Greenpeace operatives’ ability to spot the so-called “contaminated” papaya trees may be due to the fact that Papaya Ring Spot Virus has destroyed almost all non-GM papaya trees. Any healthy, green papaya tree on the Big Island is likely to be modified.
Reading the mainstream media's "news" report on this and then Walden's response demonstrates how the media will lie and shill for the leftist political agenda that almost all journalism school graduates share.
# posted by Grant Jones @ 1:22 PM 
