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    Toronto Star Public Editor: Estimating crowd sizes is always tricky

    By Kathy English for the Toronto Star Canada’s new National Newsmedia Council has dismissed – with reservation – a complaint about the Toronto Star’s March report of the Ford family event held at the Toronto Congress Centre to celebrate the life of Toronto mayor Rob Ford. The complaint concerned a question of the accuracy of…

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    CBC Ombudsman: Truth in Syrian coverage—It’s not that simple

    By Esther Enkin for the CBC The complainant, T.A. Anderson thought a piece on The National marking the fifth anniversary of the start of hostilities in Syria was distorted and biased. He thought there were many facts and perspectives that should have been included, and provided many links to that information. The story was far…
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    Globe and Mail Public Editor: Credentials must always be checked

    [[{"fid":"6202","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":""},"type":"media","attributes":{"height":444,"width":361,"style":"width: 75px; height: 92px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left;","class":"media-element file-default"},"link_text":null}]]By Sylvia Stead for the Globe and Mail A profile story which initially described a man as a chiropractor running a school about osteopathy was changed this week to make two significant corrections. The story on the business education hub was part of a series…
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    Globe and Mail Public Editor: ‘Worst mass shooting’ in U.S. history

    [[{"fid":"6188","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":""},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"height":444,"width":361,"style":"width: 75px; height: 92px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left;","class":"media-element file-default"}}]]By Sylvia Stead for the Globe and Mail Earlier this week, The Globe and Mail and its digital products were heavily focused on the shocking murder of 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub. Headlines and stories referred to it as “the worst mass shooting…
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    CBC Ombudsman: Who said that? The use of paraphrase and direct quotes

    By Esther Enkin, CBC ombudsman The complainant, Greg Hunter, was suspicious of statements attributed to the Syrian government and to Vladimir Putin. He thought it unlikely they had actually said what Carol Off attributed to them in the course of an interview on As It Happens. He questioned the accuracy. There was no violation of…

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    CBC Ombudsman: Trump and the Republican Party

    By Esther Enkin, CBC ombudsman The complainant, Steve Cherry thought it inappropriate for Neil Macdonald to refer to creationism as superstition in a column he wrote about challenges facing the Republican policy in the face of a Trump candidacy for President. Expressing opinion is prohibited by CBC policy and even this passing reference did not…
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    Toronto Star Public Editor: When a private tragedy becomes a public spectacle

    [[{"fid":"6137","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":""},"type":"media","attributes":{"height":153,"width":124,"style":"width: 75px; height: 93px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left;","class":"media-element file-default"},"link_text":null}]]By Kathy English for the Toronto Star The union that represents Toronto Star newsroom employees called Tuesday for an independent investigation into the death of a Star reporter who recently took her own life. By all reports of those closest to her, the last thing…