Does anyone still read that right-wing rag anymore?
Writer fabricated names, quotes, National Post says

By*GLORIA GALLOWAY
From Saturday's Globe and Mail (http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040702.wpost3/BNStory/National/)

A medical reporter at the National Post has left the newspaper after it learned that stories he had written allegedly contained fabricated names and quotes.

A note to readers on Page 2 of yesterday's Post said nine articles by Brad Evenson, a senior journalist at the paper who has won awards for his stories about medical research, contained false information.

"The Post takes this seriously and it is not in any way indicative of the quality of reporting and editing at the newspaper," Post editor Matthew Fraser said in the five-paragraph note to readers that offered no apology for the breach of journalistic ethics. Mr. Fraser was unavailable for comment yesterday and no other Post executive would talk about the incident.

The paper said that the articles in question, which date back to December, 2002, contained quotes that "were either the result of other conversations, Internet exchanges or readings but they were not made by the people cited.":rolleyes:
M

Taking notes from Bush and Co. perhaps tongue.gif

'Course the New York Times got nailed as well by one it's own. :cool:

This one is not too sinister - he didn't fabricate stories but he attached quotes to the wrong people. Unprofessional, lazy and deceptive. Hey, that would make a good by-line for the National Post.....

Hey, that would make a good by-line for the National Post.....
I would prefer a good-bye line for the Pest

Does anyone still read that right-wing rag anymore?
:rolleyes:
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Mark on my Safari your picture takes up half the screen.

John

Jeez!

Mark, re size that avatar. Its taking up half my screen too :P

Ach, head -- down in front! Lookit the size o'dat t'ing, it's the size o' sputnik! :yikes: ;)

Ach, head -- down in front! Lookit the size o'dat t'ing, it's the size o' sputnik! :yikes: ;)
Its like Sputnik. It's got it's own weather system!

Let him cry himself to sleep on his huge pillah