On 29/03/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
Maybe. If it's judged significant. Which, in this case, it clearly is not, since nobody else seems to be running with it. Have you read their follow-up stories? It looks *awfully* like a vendetta.
This argument is not valid. Significance of a particular item of information cannot be judged based upon the number of papers which run with the story. There are many factors which influence whether a newspaper reports an item of information, regardless of its factual accuracy and significance. Perhaps the most important of these factors is that almost all newspapers have a political point of view which influences the perceived significance of some information.