[MelBridgeman]

Originally Posted by jammies

http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hal...gh_school.html

If you read the original story - which you obviously haven't - you can see that the Star is very careful to say that there are several people who claim to be witnesses to the physical altercations and verbal abuse, but that one of Ford's assistant coaches is asked about the allegations and that he denies anything of the sort ever occurred. One paragraph explicitly says: "Witnesses interviewed by the Star disagree on whether there was a physical confrontation between Ford and the student player."

If you think that is "false", you have a very different definition of "false". Reporting on what people claim to have witnessed can never be false unless the reports themselves are falsified, not just because the allegations are unproven or later proven to be untrue. Further, Rob Ford has never sued the Star for any of the various unflattering stories about him, which, if they were truly "false", he surely would have done.

In other words, you have no idea what you are talking about, and the irony of you complaining about a news outlet being insufficiently exacting in their pursuit of truth, while you don't bother to check your own "facts", is telling.

Thanks and thanks for reading my post correctly

did they not?