Regret the Error

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Canoe, one of the biggest news sites in Canada, mistook a Canadian Press reporter for a man facing four terrorism-related charges. Steve Proulx and Steve Faguy noted the error and provided this screengrab:

Here’s the man on trial:

After fixing the photo (but not adding a correction), the site eventually removed the page. Nice.

Final item of note: the site partly relies on content from the Journal de Montréal, a paper that recently locked out its staff. (The site and the paper are both owned by Quebecor.) This story was credited to the news agency created by Quebecor to provide reporting during the lockout. Says Steve Faguy: “And some people suggested that a Journal de Montréal lockout would cause a degradation in the quality of reporting…”