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What [Frances Russell] is saying is that almost every journalist and "media," which I assume refers to management and proprietorship, knew that a scandal existed with respect to the claims made by [Schreiber], and deliberately acted to ignore and or defeat reporting on the story. She suggests this is part of some kind of right-wing media conspiracy. Her evidence is as follows:
A quick scan of the data base of CanWest newspapers reveals that on Oct. 9, 2004, the Edmonton Journal reported on [William Kaplan]'s book under the headline [Brian Mulroney] took Schreiber cash, book says. On Nov. 5, 2004, under the headline The scandal that won't go away in the National Post, Michael Bliss published a 900-word review of the Kaplan book.
Most notably, however, in response to Russell's conspiracy ...
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Hughes acknowledges in her lawsuit she published an article in 2002 in a Winnipeg community newspaper, in which she explored claims made by Internet sites about the 9-11 attacks the previous year, including Internet allegations that Israeli businesses vacated the World Trade Center a week before the attack. At the start of the decade, she filed a successful human rights complaint against another one of my former employers, the Winnipeg Sun, after senior editors there cancelled her column.
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Every time we go to a tournament we're the team to beat," said [Brad Marchand], still sweating profusely immediately following Canada's 2-0 shutout of Slovakia at the World Junior Hockey Championship Thursday. "The Czechs wanted us out of the tournament early. They didn't want us to win it.
"I'm not sure how it was all designed," [Craig Hartsburg] said, "but it was a test for our kids to get through it. Last year (in Leksand, Sweden) it was similar because we had to go back and play the U.S. the next day, too. But this was harder because we had the afternoon (game). Last year it was two six o'clock games. This year it was 8 o'clock (p.m.) and come back to play at four (p.m.) the next day. That's a short turnaround.
"If it was easy," Hartsburg said with a shrug, "we wouldn't want to d...
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... lack of precision in identifying the theory of the . . . case" and referred to the allegationss as a "conspiracy theory" and a "scatter-shot complaint with the all...
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While the wieners are broiling and the beans are bubbling, the wife's imagination begins to boil. Suppose he's not working; suppose he's out in some motel with some fancy gal from finance? And by the time HHHH gets home, looking forward to his cold wieners and beans, the "suppose" has disappeared from the equation. It's a simple case of you were at a motel with Little Miss Fancy Figures, case closed.
All of this is a direct steal from a 1982 book called Holy Blood, Holy Grail, by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln. That book began with the same big "suppose" that Christ didn't die on the Cross but ran off to France with [Mary Magdalene] and, from that assumption, without any evidence at all, built the same conspiracy theory that [Dan Brown] used. In fact, the authors sued ...
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... Confidence as an anti-Conservative conspiracy theory. But it isn't May's claims about Harper's m...
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The mainstream media reports on the Stephane Dion firing of [Lesley Hughes], the former Liberal candidate in Kildonan-St. Paul, fill all the offensive reporting criteria of which we have become so used to. For example, instead of addressing the issues, the reporter, Dan Lett, uses name-calling tactics in his Sept. 27 article titled, Altar of Google ravenous for sacrifices. Lett writes that Hughes has "curious views" and is a 9-11 conspiracy theorist." (Lett doesn't stop there, he takes a swipe also at Barrie Zwicker and those who question the "official 9-11 conspiracy story of record," calling them "infamous.") Lett, unlike Hughes and Zwicker, however, never addresses the as yet unanswered questions and unreported and underreported information surrounding 9-11, which the mainstream med...
...) but for buying into a crazy conspiracy theory. If this is the case, Dion should say so publicly....
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Named after Brad Pitt's character in Fight Club, this site doesn't pull any punches. I sometimes question whether some of the posts have even a shred of truth to them, but they are so incredibly funny it doesn't matter. One of my recent favourites was a conspiracy theory that Hollywood mothers' obsession with caesarian sections has nothing to do with the "too posh to push" mentality, but rather is because all these A-list moms have herpes.
Here's a great example: "...Hollywood's Most Socially Responsible Actress and the Dude Who Goes Along With Whatever She Says Because the Sex Is Still Mind-Blowing decided to set an almost unattainable example of selflessness for their less generous peers by auctioning off young Shiloh to the highest bidder, then donating the proceeds to their favourit...
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I'm writing in response to Morley Walker's article Paper cuts (Dec. 12). As a local author who is multi-published with digital publishers and as an avid e-book reader, I just wanted to correct a couple of points in the "cons" part of the article. As far as being able to take your reader to the beach or in the bathtub, a Ziploc freezer bag works perfectly. It's just the right size to hold my Sony reader open flat and I can still easily read the screen through the plastic. I've taken my reader to the beach, the pool and into the bathtub.
I commend the Free Press for printing Ken McIntyre's letter Not a "real" pandemic (Dec. 12). Having had a family member destroyed by vaccines, I have spent 15 years keeping up with much that's been written about vaccines and the shady and fraudulent way t...
...Rather than conjuring up a conspiracy theory and imputing ulterior motives to Siloam, pe...
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So let's get this straight: Patriots quarterback Tom Brady steps out of the New York apartment occupied by the world's richest supermodel, who just happens to be his current honeybunch, and doesn't expect any of the looming, ever-present paparazzi to take a picture?
Now maybe this is just an idle conspiracy theory afoot here, but you'd almost think the Patriots were trying to manufacture some diversion entering Super Bowl XMEHIVVUW, or whatever it is. Because for the last few days, media coverage around the Patriots has been sucked into the black hole that is Brady's ankle.
Of course, all the while [Bill Belichick] seemed to revel in the angst over Brady's health. And don't forget that this is the same Belichick who, for kicks and giggles, lists Brady as "probable (shoulder)" on the tea...