Marc Edge On "Asper Nation"

Love this line: <ul>"Izzy Asper's sons were never as slavish in their support of the Liberals as their father had been....Asper noted that CanWest had spread its political contributions well beyond just the Liberals, following ideological rather than party lines."</ul> <p>Well that also explains the actions of stalwart 'liberals' like Scharwz and Reisman. <p>Is there any explanation in the book about what Craig Silverman called the 'error of the year' <i> <blockquote>Error of the Year: <p>Winner the First: In mid May, Canada’s National Post thought it had a huge scoop thanks to information from an Iranian writer, namely that a recently-passed law in Iran could require non-Muslims to wear special identification badges on their clothing. <p>The paper splashed the story, “Iran Eyes Badges For Jews,” across six columns on its May 19 front page and capped it off with a huge photo of Hungarian Jews sporting yellow stars during WWII. The story was wrong, totally wrong. <p>The Post ran an article detailing some of the questions about the story the next day, but it had already been picked up in North America, Europe and beyond. Then, finally, on May 24 the paper ran a Page 2 note from its editor headlined, “Our mistake: Note to readers.” It read, in part: <p> ...We acknowledge that on this story, we did not exercise sufficient caution and skepticism, and we did not check with enough sources. We should have pushed the sources we did have for more corroboration of the information they were giving us. That is not to say that we ignored basic journalistic practices or that we rushed this story into print with no thought as to the consequences. But given the seriousness of the allegations, more was required. </i></blockquote> <a href="http://www.regrettheerror.com/regret-articles/crunks-%e2%80%9906-the-year-in-media-errors-and-corrections"> Regret the Error</a> <p>,Also what about the strange case of Tyee...almost immediately after Terry Glavin was dropped by the <a href="http://www.straight.com/article/stopwars-peace-is-about-opposing-israel">Georgia Straight</a>, the BC Fed's Tyee picked <a href="http://transmontanus.blogspot.com/2007/04/socialism-of-fools-reports-from-front.html"> him</a> up as a <a href="http://thetyee.ca/Bios/Terry_Glavin/"> columnist</a>? <p>,A really Progressive guy and a great addition to the BC Fed family... Oh the book...ya....looks like the same kvetching that Friends of CBC have been making bucks off of for years. Wake me when the former employees of the CBC come up with something germane.