FHA - Media Coverage

Media Coverage

• The Australian March 6 1998
- “ABC television’s flagship Four Corners program was inaccurate and unfair...”

• The Bulletin April 21 1998
- “The ABC hit us with a freight train...”
- A two page feature story profiling Jeremy Griffith and the FHA, titled Higher Ground.
- A national weekly magazine in Australia incorporating Newsweek, written by Lenore Nicklin.

• The Australian Magazine May 9 1998
- “There are even higher mountains, deeper gorges, more frightening terrain inside our heads than in the physical world...”
- Profile of Tim Macartney-Snape, his involvement with the FHA and the ABA's ruling.
- A 7 page feature article in the weekend Australian Magazine supplement written by Jill Rowbotham.

• Inside Sport June 1999
- “The FHA is the mountain of my mind. It's bigger than anything I've ever attempted and the ABC is just a crevasse.”
- This article documents Tim Macartney-Snape’s legendary stature as one of the most talented and accomplished mountaineers in the world.
- Mountaineering requires the highest levels of courage, perseverance and endurance and Tim’s defence of the FHA has demanded all his proven qualities of character.
- A six-page profile on Tim written by James Elder.

• This Living Century Magazine August 28 1999
- “Macartney-Snape: ‘one of this century’s greatest Australians’”
- This article recognises Tim as one of this century’s greatest Australians— further testament to Tim Macartney-Snape’s stature.
- Tim is listed with nine other Australian Adventurers—including Douglas Mawson and Charles Kingsford Smith—as 'People who shaped our Nation'.
- ‘Macartney-Snape once wrote that adventure, as one form of the search to understand the truth, should be vigorously defended.’

• Melbourne Millennium Messages May 2000
- Tim Macartney-Snape was invited by the City of Melbourne to contribute a ‘millennium message’ for the year 2000 celebrations in Melbourne. In May 2000 the City of Melbourne released a book, Melbourne Millennium Messages 2000, containing a selection of 50 of the messages received from ‘over 500 leaders’ who responded. Tim’s message, which follows, was one of the 50 chosen :
- ‘Ours is an ancient land but we are young at heart. Let’s use our youthful strength to champion free thinking and through that bring liberating understanding to the human condition. Only then can there truly be a better life for all.’ Tim Macartney-Snape, Adventurer

• The Australian May 30 2003
- “ABC loses defamation case”
- The jury found Jeremy Griffith and Tim Macartney-Snape
  were defamed by the Four Corners program.

• The Land Friday Magazine June 03 2003
- “Challenging Humanity...talking about the big stuff”
- Profile of Jeremy Griffith and the FHA. It also documents the NSW Supreme Court ruling that Jeremy Griffith and Tim Macartney-Snape were defamed in an ABC TV's Four Corners program in 1995, and discusses Jeremy’s third book— A Species in Denial.
- A full-page profile written by Kate Wilkie.

• World Talk Radio September 20 2005
- Jeremy was interviewed by author and journalist Jason Merchey in his weekly World Talk Radio program, ‘Values and Ethics: from Living Room to Boardroom’. Jason is the founder of ‘Values of the Wise’, a San Diego based organisation dedicated ‘to bringing great thinking to life’.

Reviews and commendations for publications by Jeremy Griffith can be found in the Publications & Reviews section. This section includes over 20 impressive media reviews about the bestselling book A Species In Denial and over 100 responses from the world’s leading scientists to The Human Condition Documentary Proposal. See below for direct links: