Media Watch: Have We Met? (24/09/2007)
People who read Catallaxy know the story that Phillip Adams claimed to have had a "chilling" interview on his radio show with Helen Dale.
This story was dealt with in somewhat peculiar fashion on Media Watch last night, which seemed to want to spend as much time on other issues as pursuing the truth from Adams. The transcript on the Media Watch website (above) does not cover all of what was on the TV version .
Clearly, Adams was being evasive in his semi-retraction on LNL. He admits he did not interview her on that show, but implies an interview, or at least a meeting, did occur elsewhere without specifying when or where.
Oh well, I guess he might be more forthcoming to the ABC complaints people.
Well, they nail Adams with this quote, though:
ReplyDeleteSurely Phillip Adams isn't seriously saying that an interview he remembered so clearly just a few days ago…now may have been just a chance encounter?
Fascinating.
ReplyDeleteUmm, who is Helen Dale?
Helen Dale is the blogger Skepticlawyer who posts at Catallaxy. Some years ago she wrote the novel 'The Hand That Signed the Paper', a book which attracted some controversy for reasons which I can never quite remember.
ReplyDeleteShe has an entry in Wikipedia, and doubtless this latest stoush over what Philip Adams said will be written up in Wikipedia sooner or later. The wikipedia entry contains background on the 'Darville/Demidenko/Dale' scandal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Darville