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Edmonton Journal deems headline “totally uncalled-for”

July 16, 2008 – 8:00 am

A headline on page A16 in Monday’s paper — “Carbon-capture plan reeks of dirty money” — was totally uncalled-for, and mis-characterized efforts by an Edmonton firm to finance and launch a carbon-capture-and-storage project. A subheadline on the same column unfairly implied that former premier Don Getty, in his capacity as one of the principals in [...]

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One writer’s mea culpa

June 12, 2008 – 8:00 am

From a blog post by Edmonton Journal columnist Todd Babiak:
I have written for the Journal since 2001. In that time, I have only caused three “corrections” — the dreaded sentence on the second page of the newspaper that describes an error on the part of the writer. Three times too many.
Steve Glassman, executive producer [...]

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