This explanation strikes me as the print version of CBC's "inadvertant cut and paste" in the Heil Harper piece.

Come on guys!! The best excuse the MSM can come up with is the journalistic equivilent of "my dog ate my homework"???

Suggested new courses at journalism school: Plausibility 101; Advaced CYA.

For those institutions of higher learning that are interested my nine year old son is avaliable to teach the above.

Syncro

I'm not sure about what's happened to Paul William Roberts, but un-named sources have confirmed to me that the un-named Conservative insiders so liberally quoted in the Globe and Mail's front-page stories on Harper are fictitious creations of their reporters.

I too will not reveal my source.

What's a little plagarism in such an intellectual environment as at the Grope and Flail, "property is theft" remember? I'm reminded of an article in the free community newspaper the lefties distribute in my neighbourhood, concerning an epidemic of things disappearing out of people's yards, "I prefer to call it scrounging", the typist typed, "I don't like to call it theft". Obviously Roberts just "scrounged" some text, "recycled" it so to speak.

The un-named source is Cretien's homeless buddy.

At least now we can just sit back and say with every justification that the Globe and Mail (like its cousin CTV) as a source of investigative integrity is laughable at best.

You gotta wonder what the editor's reaction was to Roberts when he found out about this. Could it have been a slap to the head, followed by the words, "You idiot! You just made my BS shovelling 10 times harder!"

Probe and Fail (explaining Paul William Robert's plagiarism) : "After an investigation by The Globe and Mail, it appears that notes by the author were MISTAKENLY inserted into the story without proper attribution" [my emphasis].

CBC (explaining the "Heil Harper" incident): "It was an INADVERTENT error, one the editor did not notice..." [my emphasis]

Today's school yards and classrooms are full of students with the same mentality as the MSM: "It wasn't me." "It's not my fault." "S/he did it." "I didn't do anything wrong." Ad nauseum.

For decades, we've been bringing kids up in, and inculcating them with, this whiny, big SHRUG, WHATEVER, 'NOT-ME attitude, which is now spilling over into areas where professionalism used to be honoured and rewarded. Getting a slip to go to the principal's office is pretty much a joke these days, which means that malcontents and bullies have carte blanche when it comes to how they "choose" to behave.

Add to this attitude of entitlement administrators and others with authority who refuse to exercise it to appropriately discipline malfeasance and those who practise it, and what do you get: Bibbity, Bobbity, Boo:

Paul William Roberts and those of his ilk and tricksy, let's-have-fun technicians at Canada's Pravda News Agency (aka the CBC), duly protected by those who should know better. No consequences and it's-not-my/her/his-fault amounts to the MSM soiling their own nests--which they seem to think is OK.

We in Canada might just as well get used to it, because there's a lot more of the same coming down the tube...

Either that, or it's time to head for the hills, only there don't seem to be any left...

Has anyone else noticed the irony of the MSM itself lurching from one integrity-based scandal to the next while Harper's government,for all intensive purposes,is sailing smoothly?Despite the MSM's tireless efforts,just look at the polls...SWWWEEEEEEEETT!

I also cannot help but notice a direct correlation between the integrity-challenged Liberanos behavior and that of those deceitful journalists who seem to be cut from exactly the same cloth,with the same dishonest propaganda to spread.

Now,it is exposed for all to see... the MSM themselves are clearly the ones with a "not-so-hidden"agenda.

As John Cleese would say:
"YOU BASTARDS!!"

I'm no lawyer butt,

The Mop and Pails dismissal of plagerism, should play nicely in a big court case.
If I were Matthias ,I'd return the call from the numerous lawyers that are probably beating down his door.

Avoiding Bullets and Arrest In Search of the Truth
Paul William Roberts has made it his business to uncover what's really going on in Iraq during the U.S. occupation, a career move that's since put restrictions on his passport, but has made him an award-winning journalist and Middle East expert.
Paul William Roberts comes to this week's Ottawa International Writers Festival with an arsenal of lingering mysteries about both the U.S.-led war against and subsequent occupation of Iraq, and major characters from the New Testament.

For instance,...

More:
For instance, three years after Mr. Roberts was last in Iraq and spent four months covering the war there for Harper's magazine, there has yet to be acknowledgement of a horrific event he believes occurred at the perimeter of Baghdad's airport.

Travelling with a BBC crew, the Toronto-based, 45-year-old freelance writer arrived in an area where everything was "burned to a frazzle, trees were blackened" and where he saw a corpse, its legs like "charred branches from a tree," as he described it in his 2004 book, A War Against Truth.

"The rest of the body was a black tar-like puddle. Something had melted it entirely, flesh, bones, the lot."

Was that person's death caused by a "neutron bomb?"

Mr. Roberts says that according to information he received from "credible" Jordanian and Israeli intelligence sources, sometime between April 5 and 6, 2003, a deal was brokered between the U.S. and Gen. Ahmed Hussein, who apart from Saddam Hussein (no relation) had complete authority over all units of the Republican Guard.

Ahmed ordered most of the Special Republican Guard, an

elite fighting force of about 40,000 troops, to retreat into the subterranean complexes about 30 metres underground at what is now called Baghdad International Airport. They were told they would be airlifted, with Saddam, to sanctuary in Syria.

The general managed to cut a deal that allowed him to leave Iraq for Syria, but the others weren't as fortunate, says Mr. Roberts, who won a National Magazine Award for his account of the 1991 Gulf War that appeared in Saturday Night magazine.

Though the U.S. military kept him and other reporters away from the airport in 2003 on the pretext that a battle was underway (there wasn't), Mr. Roberts believes the Americans detonated "some kind of high-tech bomb" -- perhaps a neutron bomb -- that "vaporized" an estimated 40,000 Special Republican Guardsmen who took refuge in the underground bunkers.

"There have been no reports of people seeing anyone from those units," explains Mr. Roberts. "The housing complexes where they lived remain empty. ... +
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