Watkin's finished his Hanoi 'press release' with a lengthy quote by Searcy which also echoed the Hanoi line. This so-called article was nothing more than propaganda piece for a pack of mass murderers. I would be praising it if I even called it shabby reporting. Scientists, all off the record, were telling me the whole thing was hysteria. . . . I don't think Franklin would last too long on Murdoch's Australian.
Integrity is the last thing it wants.
It would make its other 'journalist' too uncomfortable. If The Australian had any respect for the truth it would fire Watkin. In the 1980s an Australian Royal Commission cleared Agent Orange of having damaged the health of Australian Vietnam vets. No doubt some left-wing journalist or academic will find some grounds to challenge these findings and malign the Commission. This is not true.