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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Cantelo" data-source="post: 1521313" data-attributes="member: 2844"><p>Actually, having finally got round to reading the original article I found it not nearly as bad as postings here suggest.  The writer did acknowledge the damage introduced species do and seemed most concerned about what she saw (in this instance wrongly, I believe) as the use of 'loaded' terminology to describe threats.  As I understand it the real concern was that words like 'overseas' and 'foriegn' were so routinely linked to "threats" that they become a shorthand for a xenophobic world view.  The examples cited were poor and the agrument badly thought through in this case, but one doesn't have to read too many 'red tops' or the 'yellow press' in general to discover examples of the type of journalism being attacked in this article,</p></blockquote><p></p>