Articles Tagged with “Shoddy-reporting”

29/03/2008: Earth Hour

The Sydney Morning Herald has just (about 2 hours ago) reported that:

This year, 26 cities joined Earth Hour as official partner cites, including — along with all of Australia’s capitals — Atlanta, Bangkok, Chicago, Christchurch, Copenhagen, Dublin, Manila, Montreal, Odense, Ottawa, Phoenix, San Francisco, Tel Aviv and Toronto.

In the US, the lights were going out on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island, and Chicago’s Sears Tower. North of the border, Canada was turning off the lights at Toronto’s CN Tower and the floodlights at Niagara Falls.

In Britain, Brighton Pier was blacked out, and Prince Charles gave Earth Hour royal approval by turning off the lights at Highgrove House, his Gloucestershire home.

Now I do appreciate that it’s very late in Sydney now, and the SMH’s reporters want to be tucked up in bed at home, but that’s no excuse for such…