DECEITFUL JOURNALISM BY THE SEYCHELLES NATION!

This publication ran a story on page 3 in its issue No. 37, Volume 6, on 19th October, 2007, under the title, “Will Ile Perseverance Sink In Thirty Years?” The story concentrated on global climate change and on the fact that rising temperatures, changing sea levels and changes generally in the global weather pattern will have an impact here in the Seychelles on low lying areas. This is now a genuine concern among Island States such as us. We further illustrated our point through two photographs of ‘Ile Perseverance’, one depicting an aerial view of current development on the Island and a second photograph showing the retaining wall and sea level on the day the picture was taken. There was no exaggeration in our article and in the pictures which accompanied the article. 

However, the Seychelles Nation thought otherwise. They wanted to have the last word on this matter. In an article to convince the masses that their pay masters are one step ahead of god they wrote, “Well before climate change was identified as a global issue, however, Seychelles was already taking all possible measures to protect the environment”, in their front page article last Saturday 903/11/07). They backed this ridiculous statement with two photographs - one on the front page and the same picture at a different angle with the clear intention to deceive their readers on page 6 that we are surrounded by mountains of rocks.  Judge for yourself we have reproduced the pictures for your own assessment. How ridiculous is that?

aerial view of Ile Perseverance

Aerial view of Ile Perseverance from The Weekly

Below are the photos that appeared in the Nation

Ile Perseverance photo from the Nation

Ile Perseverance photo from the Nation

November 9, 2007
Copyright 2007: Seychelles Weekly, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles