The Jerusalem Post has an article this morning on the Globe & Mail fabrication noted below. HonestReporting Canada is cited, and the Globe & Mail makes a statement:
“Obviously, it’s a very embarrassing error,” said Guy Nicholson, the newspaper’s interim foreign editor. “We asked her for some background about where the story location was. Unfortunately, she was not actually at the scene of it. She wrote it off of television and wires.”
Nicholson goes on to say the issue has been ‘blown out of proportion.’ We think not. To pretend one is covering a scene that never happened is an egregious violation of journalistic ethics, and demands action beyond a mere correction in the next day’s edition.
