The correction they ran, after emailing all (both?) of their subscribers with the offending article:
And the potentially offensive subject line?
“Why don’t you go f*@! yourself”
In related news, how much joy do you think it gave the Globe and Mail to run that? NOOOOooobody does po-faced intramural sniping like us Canadians.
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No surprise. That’s what they basically said to their readers the moment that yobbo-baiting neo-con racist got appointed chief editor. Dr. Foth wouldn’t wipe his bottom with that rag nowadays.
I was more-or-less willing to give it a shot up until their “Do Immigrants Need Rules?” cover. Lately they threw in a dishonest article about the HPV vaccine under the cover “Our Girls Aren’t Guinea Pigs” or some such.
They’ve stopped being the magazine of record for Canada, and started being the second official organ of the Harper Conservatives–or possibly Alberta. The first organ, is of course, Harper.
I’m really surprised that anyone was offended by this, because I’m really surprised that fishwrap still has readers. But I guess since Reader’s Digest went listings-only they needed to get something else into the waiting rooms of the nation.
Metro, did you read the HPV story? The principle criticisms of the HPV vaccine program came from the lead researcher on the study that the government used as the basis for its intiative. What was dishonest about that?
I’m still surprised anyone read the article…or the magazine. They asked for “fresh voices” so I applied, but it turned out they didn’t want fresh. They wanted bitter, disenfranchised-feeling white guys.
@Maestro:
I’d start with the title: “Our Girls Are Not Guinea Pigs”. As though the whole program was some sort of mass experiment using some sort of untried quack nostrum.
Then there’s the first couple of paragraphs, where they start by clearly drawing a line between inoculation with Gardasil and girls fainting and being “mildly paralyzed,” and even dying … Followed by a statement that said “there’s no evidence Gardasil was responsible.”
I also feel the Lippman interview was unethically edited.
There are reasons to be cautious about mass immunizations, but let’s confine ourselves to the real ones, rather than the boogeyman that MacLeans is attempting to fit in the frame here.
MacLeans used to be quite readable, but I feel their late sensationalism and pandering have dropped them out of the category of serious public information and into the talk-show-issues format.
But not well. If it had worked, we’d all be reading it. And none of us do.