28 July 2009

Journalists -- our moral...

...and intellectual superiors...
The real headline here should be... "Local Sociopath... nobody had a clue".

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RELATED: Apparently J-School 101 says...

...never let facts get in the way of a good story...
What motivation was there behind torquing over three quarters of the story? Did somebody in Ottawa (or Toronto) pick up the phone and push a more interesting story to the editors instead?

Some observers will remember that “Wafergate” led CBC’s flagship newscast The National rather than the story about the Prime Minister’s participation in the G8 conference.
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