Source 245: The following quotes come from the Quadrant website, accessed November 2018 at: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2012/11/the-hubris-of-four-corners. (These links may or may not still be operational; if they aren't, we may have redirected it to the WayBackMachine archive).
‘While the three judges agreed that the program had not been justified in claiming Griffith’s book was of such poor scientific standard that it had no support at all from the scientific community, Four Corners avoided liability when the Court upheld a defence of comment…[which] was an unusual outcome…Evidently the appeal judges failed to understand the motivations of some investigative journalism projects, which from time to time clearly attempt…to exert social and political influence’, in this case, ‘to set back [Griffith’s] activities’, which was why ‘Rev. Millikan had also engaged in misrepresentation to obtain Griffith’s co-operation in making the broadcast.’
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