A news story -- almost
Canadian news agency
CBC News has this story about a bit of reporting in the Boston Globe:
Boston Globe retracts fabricated story on seal hunt
The Boston Globe on Friday retracted a story by a Halifax-based freelance writer that purported to describe the opening of the seal hunt.
The story, which was published Wednesday, contained details that "hunters on about 300 boats converged on ice floes, shooting seal cubs by the hundreds, as the ice and water turned red."
However, the seal hunt was actually delayed until Friday morning due to bad weather.
OOPS! -- turns out the reporter was a stringer (not a Globe employee) and -- obviously -- was not at the site when she filed her story. Reminiscent of the reporters in Baghdad filing their "man on the Arab-Street" stories from the
Hotel Bar...
Posted by DaveH at April 16, 2005 5:16 PM
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