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Originally Posted by Osem
Oh dear, perhaps we'll need an emergency enquiry into the IPCC's standards....
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I don't see the problem here. The IPCC Press Office seems to have been passing on information, when asked, in good faith. It did not proactively issue information until it was reasonably sure of the facts. Certainly, no reference to Duggan firing first appeared in any press release put out by the IPCC.
If journalists will insist on off-the-cuff briefings to feed their 24-hour operations, they are going to have to expect information released while an enquiry is barely begun to be preliminary and unreliable.
And yet, all the main media outlets are suddenly throwing the word "misled" around as if giving duff information to pushy hacks was some sort of a criminal offence.
The British media, the Press media in particular, is sitting in its very own glass house at the moment, and it had better think twice before throwing rocks at the IPCC or anyone else.