Irikanji Reporting
At least one tourist operator here in Hervey Bay is rather upset with the way the Irikanji issue has been handled by the Chronicle. He sees the way the Chronicle has reported the problem as nothing short of sensationalism.
Of course, that wouldn’t be the first time the Chronicle has lapsed into near-hysteria over something could possibly affect Hervey Bay. Remember the last tropical cyclone and the way the paper reported that? It never even arrived but even before it had formed the paper was crying ‘wolf’.
And sadly some people are suggesting a bias towards Maryborough is beginning to appear in the Chronicle once more.
Whatever the local situation might be the fact is that, if there is a cat, it’s well and truly out of the bag now because reports of the finding of Irikanji off Sandy Cape are appearing in papers around Australia and websites in other parts of the world are running with the story too.
