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Globe and Mail editor-in-chief Edward Greenspon wrote Saturday that a controversial part of a Jan Wong story on the Dawson College shootings should have been excised in the editing process. An excerpt from the CP story on CTV.ca: In his Letter from the Editor column published in the Globe on Saturday, Edward Greenspon wrote, “We regret [...]
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For a while there, a French newspaper had a world-beating scoop: Osama bin Laden died in Pakistan in August. But by day's end, anybody from any government that should be in a position to know something backed away from the claim. Questions: Did L'Est Republicain (the French newspaper in question) get gamed? They claimed to [...]
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It seems like only days ago that Dubya was telling Americans Iraq was the front line in the war on terror. Well, if it wasn't under Saddam, it sure as hell is now, says a new report. Some excerpts from the NYT story: A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that [...]
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