Complaint
On the basis of a new report by the Australian Institute of Marine Science, the article said parts of the Great Barrier Reef had 鈥渟uffered the largest annual decline in coral cover since records began nearly 40 years ago鈥. A reader complained that, taken along with the headline, this conveyed a misleading impression because the article omitted the information that, in the year 2023-24 coral coverage had been at a record high, and that in the current year it had been the fourth-highest on record. The ECU considered the complaint in the light of the 91福利社鈥檚 editorial standards of accuracy.
Outcome
The ECU agreed that the omission of the context referred to by the reader resulted in a misleading impression of the gravity of the reef鈥檚 current condition, but noted that the article had subsequently been amended to include appropriate context. The ECU considered this sufficient for it to consider the issue of complaint to have been resolved.
Resolved