A quote from the Liberal leader in a story carried by the Sun papers:
Ignatieff urges calm on terror arrests
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“It’s important for Canadians to realize in the Toronto (18) case, the courts acquitted many people. These people are innocent until proven guilty…”
Now for something very curious indeed. When one Googles “It’s important for Canadians to realize in the Toronto (18) case, the courts acquitted many people” (without quotes) one finds in the Postmedia story (“www.canada.com/news/Ignatieff+stresses+terror…until…/story.html”–Update: the results of the search producing the “canada.com” link have now vanished–but see Upperdate at end):
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“It’s important for Canadians to realize that in the Toronto case the courts acquitted many people. These people are innocent until proven guilty…”
So far so good. Looks like both reporters got the same quote. Yet when one reads the Postmedia text now online one sees instead:
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Ignatieff said the last time a group of Canadians were prosecuted for terrorism-related charges, the “Toronto 18,” as they were known, several of them were not convicted…
Very different indeed, direct quote removed. “[N]ot convicted” is very different from “acquitted”. In fact the Mickster got his facts dead wrong in the direct quote. Charges were not pursued against seven of the 18–but the 11 who went to trial were all convicted. There have been no acquittals.
One finds it hard to escape the conclusion that Postmedia News rewrote their story to remove Mickey I.’s glaring error of fact–at the request of his handlers? What kind of journalism might that be?
Upperdate: Just to be geeky but evidential, from Google cached:
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Ignatieff said the last time a group of Canadians were prosecuted for terrorism-related charges, the “Toronto 18,” as they were known, several of them were acquitted…© Copyright (c) Postmedia News
But what is copyrighted? What they initially reported?
Mark
Ottawa
[...] Rewriting news to protect Mickey I.? [...]
“What kind of journalism might that be?”
Jaune? ;D
Thank you for this point of clarification. The charges were STAYED and they signed peace bonds. far cry from acquitted or not guilty.
The Liberal MSM does this all the time. Was reading the CP24 Toronto news ticker at the bottom of their screen and it read that fmr. Ont AG Bryant was “cleared” in the Darcy A. Shepard case… might still be up so anyone from Toronto or the GTA or with access to it from another part of Canada can see it for themselves. The charges against Bryant, BTW, were dropped… he wasn’t cleared.
Same difference. The special prosecutor determined that Bryant was within his rights to flee from an assault and that there was no reasonable chance of conviction. Under our system that’s as far as it needs to go. He is assumed innocent (cleared).
Charges stayed is not the same as cleared. When charges are stayed, the charges can be re-instated at the whim of the Crown within 1 year. Although it is likely the charges will not be persued. I have noticed that google is also removing stories that are unfavourable to the Progressives from its searches.
Now the cached version is gone too! Convenient.