Editor's Insight: Why 1080 scare is only a threat to the gullible
Media are well able to play into the hands of extremist groups who base their threats on fear and ignorance.
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The role of the media is to cast sunlight in dark corners and provide some disinfectant.
But occasionally the froth foils the purpose and this is the case with food scares and hoax threats.
The revelation that anti-1080 campaigners
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Editor's Insight: Why 1080 scare is only a threat to the gullible
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