Canada's National Post has apologized for printing a story saying Iran was going to require Jews to wear yellow badges.
"It is now clear the story is not true," Douglas Kelly, the National Post's editor in chief, wrote in a long editorial on Page 2. "We apologize for the mistake and for the consternation it has caused not just National Post readers, but the broader public who read the story."
This was unusual in that it's a mainstream newspaper. But it comes at a time when a lot of false stories are getting circulated: the Karl Rove indictment, for instance, or the Internet movie featuring alleged Ranger Jesse Macbeth.
More than ever it pays to pay attention, and try to separate the trustworthy information sources from the trash.
National Post, Iran, Jesse Macbeth, politics, midtopia
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