Two alert readers familiar with the works of American conservative philosopher Ayn Rand have pointed out that a letter in Monday’s Journal was largely plagiarized from a passage in Part 2 of The Fountainhead. The letter is signed “Dominique Francon”, a Fountainhead character to whom the lifted words are attributed in the book. Here’s the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
