{"id":20396,"date":"2026-02-17T10:49:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=20396"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:05:32","slug":"media-bbc-admits-to-making-up-great-barrier-reef-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/02\/17\/media-bbc-admits-to-making-up-great-barrier-reef-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: BBC admits to misleading Great Barrier Reef story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/contact\/ecu\/great-barrier-reef-suffers-worst-coral-decline-on-record-bbccouk\">Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral decline on record, bbc.co.uk | Contact the BBC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see how they came up with that headline &#8211; but you can also see why the headline is highly misleading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"776\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-338-1024x776.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-338-1024x776.png 1024w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-338-600x455.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-338-768x582.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-338-356x270.png 356w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-338.png 1121w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the correction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-337-1024x300.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-337-1024x300.png 1024w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-337-600x176.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-337-768x225.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-337-604x177.png 604w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-337.png 1112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26,29,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-practice","category-lies","category-media","category-misinformation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20401,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20396\/revisions\/20401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}