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Hamish's inbox vs the green backlash

Channel 4's head of documentaries, Hamish Mykura, responded to the attack on the broadcaster's Great Global Warming Swindle programme by environmentalist George Monbiot in yesterday's Guardian with a piece of his own in today's newspaper. But intriguingly he didn't give his Channel 4 work email address at the end of the article but a Google mail account instead. Why so? It seems Channel 4 set up the special account as it was worried by the amount of "poison" Mykura could get from committed environmentalists still angry at the broadcaster's decision to screen the programme, which was criticised by Ofcom on Monday. Monkey only hopes Google can cope.

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