Letter to MediaWatch Regarding the Catalyst Wi-Fried Program

CATALYST - WI- FRIED

From: Stephanie Honeychurch <honeychurch.s@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 9:58 AM
Subject: CATALYST - WI- FRIED
To: Mediawatch@your.abc.net.au
Cc: Magda Havas <drmagdahavas@gmail.com>, Olle Johansson <Olle.Johansson@ki.se>

Dear Sir/Madam,

I write to you as Chair of a not-for-profit organisation called Safer Wireless Technology New Zealand (Inc).  We are privileged in that independent experts, Assoc. Professor, Dr Magda Havas, (Canada) and Professor Olle Johansson, (Sweden), are our scientific advisors.

Safer Wireless Technology NZ (SWTNZ), would not exist if the New Zealand mainstream media were honest and ethical in reporting on potential health effects from emissions from Wi-Fi, smart meters, etc..  As a result of media bias, most New Zealanders, like most Australians, are unaware that they and their children are being saturated in ever-increasing and accumulating levels of a Class 2B human carcinogen in the form of microwave radiation from Wi-Fi routers, etc..  The aim of SWTNZ is to inform people of the facts, therefore we are always pleased when a high quality programme on the subject, such as 'Wi-Fried,' brings this issue to public attention.

Mediawatch's attack on Dr Maryanne Demasi and her presentation of the Catalyst programme 'Wi-Fried,' is unreasonable, unscientific and so extreme as to be deserving of international condemnation.  If Mediawatch were worthy of the name it operates under, instead of launching a personal attack on Dr Demasi, it would be asking why the Australian media ignored the press release sent by the great majority of the world's experts last May:

INTERNATIONAL EMF SCIENTISTS APPEAL TO UN TO PROTECT HUMANS AND WILDLIFE FROM ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY

When 213 scientists from 39 countries make an urgent appeal to the UN on an issue concerning every Australian, goes unreported, Mediawatch is happy to keep Australians in ignorance. Does Mediawatch have any explanation why it was complicit in failing to inform the public about this important Appeal?  By selectively ignoring or attacking scientific data and opinion on this subject that is unwelcome to the telecommunications industry, Mediawatch is pandering to corporate lobbyists and not serving the public, whose watchdog it pretends to be.

Yours sincerely,

Stephanie Honeychurch,

Chair,

Safer Wireless Technology New Zealand (Inc)

c/- 31 Alison Road,

Waiheke Island,

New Zealand.