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[[{“fid”:”3130″,”view_mode”:”media_original”,”fields”:{“format”:”media_original”,”field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]”:””,”field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]”:””},”type”:”media”,”attributes”:{“style”:”height: 221px; width: 180px; float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;”,”class”:”media-element file-media-original”},”link_text”:null}]]By Sylvia Stead, public editor for the Globe and Mail Rob Ford. So, readers, you thought that you wouldn’t read any more stories about the former mayor of Toronto. In fact, some of you have taken to Twitter or commented online, rather vehemently, to protest…

Toronto Star readers weigh in on some of the many judgments made in the newsroom.

[[{“fid”:”2386″,”view_mode”:”media_original”,”fields”:{“format”:”media_original”,”field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]”:””,”field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]”:””},”type”:”media”,”attributes”:{“style”:”width: 150px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; float: left; height: 215px;”,”class”:”media-element file-media-original”},”link_text”:null}]]By Sylvia Stead, public editor for the Globe and Mail There is a debate going on about whether newspapers should have published some of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons showing the Prophet Mohammed. On Thursday, contributor Timothy Garton Ash says European media should publish: “I would suggest…

[[{“fid”:”3130″,”view_mode”:”media_original”,”fields”:{“format”:”media_original”,”field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]”:””,”field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]”:””},”type”:”media”,”attributes”:{“style”:”height: 258px; width: 210px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; float: left;”,”class”:”media-element file-media-original”},”link_text”:null}]]By Sylvia Stead, public editor for the Globe and Mail A journalist’s instinct in dealing with crime is to be careful, and rightly so. Suspicions aren’t always right, police charges don’t always stick in court. So when charges are laid for serious crimes, the media…

What is offensive and distasteful to some will be seen as a matter of political correctness to others. It’s all in the way you look at things.