The Media and Sable Island

(October 2008, updated December 2008)

It has been said that almost any news is good news because it heightens awareness and maintains profile. However, inaccuracy and misrepresentation are increasingly common. Some of this can be attributed to sloppy and superficial journalism, and in other cases facts are deliberately massaged for provocative effect. While minor errors are to be expected, accounts comprised of mangled or invented ‘facts’, exaggerations and hyperbole can be liabilities for Sable Island and the Station. Careless and misleading reports confuse the issues and misdirect concern. While this is most often seen in the news media (print, radio, television, and online), it occasionally turns up in the works of reputable publishing houses (e.g. de Villiers & Hirtle 2004) and in scientific publications (e.g. McKinley & Burke 2000).  This page in the website will contain reviews of selected media reports, beginning with an article published in the October 2008 issue of Cruising World .

Skirting the Sands of Sable Island , Myron Arms, October 2008 issue of Cruising World

October 2008:  Review of Skirting the Sands of Sable Island

December 2008:  Response to Cruising World, December 2008

December 2008 — follow-up regarding the review of Myron Arms’s article Skirting the Sands of Sable Island (published in Cruising World in October 2008).