Tarnished Star
[Update: The item mentioned was in the Life section of the Star, not on the editorial page. Thanks to Antonia Zerbisias.]
If there were ever a strong argument for fact-checking, this is it. The Toronto Star has apparently been caught red-handed (and, we hope, red-faced) lifting an item, failing to attribute it, on the editorial page no less, only to find out after the fact that, far from being news, it is 10 years old. You can read more about it here, from the excellent blog Regret the Error.
(As an aside, one of the things that mark good blogs is giving credit where it's due by providing links to sources. We were alerted to this story by an item in The Dirt.)
If there were ever a strong argument for fact-checking, this is it. The Toronto Star has apparently been caught red-handed (and, we hope, red-faced) lifting an item, failing to attribute it, on the editorial page no less, only to find out after the fact that, far from being news, it is 10 years old. You can read more about it here, from the excellent blog Regret the Error.
(As an aside, one of the things that mark good blogs is giving credit where it's due by providing links to sources. We were alerted to this story by an item in The Dirt.)
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