{"id":150,"date":"2009-11-24T16:57:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T06:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2015-02-23T16:04:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T06:04:34","slug":"tackling-the-fairyland-claims-of-extremist-environmentalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/tackling-the-fairyland-claims-of-extremist-environmentalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling the fairyland claims of extremist environmentalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Mott takes Jennifer Marohasy to task regarding her sweeping claims of cattle damaging the environment on her <a title=\"Jennifer Marohasy&#039;s blog\" href=\"http:\/\/jennifermarohasy.com\/2009\/06\/cattle-as-part-of-the-australian-landscape\/\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have a read and a think about what they both have to say. Jennifer is a classic example of someone who is absolutely determined to push a very specific barrow, despite whatever evidence may exist to the contrary. Typically unable to have a reasoned discussion or adequately defend challenged assertions.<\/p>\n<p>Ian is entirely right when he says selective photography can be used to promote a misleading view. A good photographer does this all the time &#8211; minimising what they don&#8217;t want in an image and emphasising what they want to draw attention to &#8211; by changing angles, closeups shots and selective cropping, etc. This is from someone who does it all the time! It&#8217;s the most important skill any photographer can have.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, it&#8217;s a one-eyed environmental extremist treating the public like fools by presenting them with propaganda and insulting their intelligence when they dare to disagree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Mott takes Jennifer Marohasy to task regarding her sweeping claims of cattle damaging the environment on her blog. Have a read and a think about what they both have to say. Jennifer is a classic example of someone who is absolutely determined to push a very specific barrow, despite whatever evidence may exist to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4387,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/4387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}