Prominent in the National Times this morning is another opinion piece by Professor Leslie Kemeny, a member of the International Nuclear Energy Academy. 
Professor Kemeny’s opinion is so valuable that there are two of his articles appearing in the Times this morning.
Obviously Fairfax believes two nukes are better than one, an opinion backed up by their editorial opinion “The nuclear merry-go-round” also appearing today.
But just in case you were wondering about that wonderful journalistic notion of balance in reporting, Fairfax includes Mark Diesendorf’s article on “Forget Nuclear and go natural” But there’s clearly an agenda here. First there is the trivialisation of the debate implicit in the headline to Mark’s article, then there is the matter of two pro-nuclear articles written by a serving member of the nuclear industry, backed up by an editorial. Add to this the curious placement of Mark’s article, not alongside the articles by Kemeny that appear in “Politics”, but in “Society and Culture”. Maybe it was a scheduling thing, the Kemeny articles went live at midnight whereas the Diesendorf article doesn’t appear until 7.30 am however it seems Fairfax is determined to shape public opinion in favour of the nuclear option.
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