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1 May

CBC ombudsman: Be careful what you claim from a scientific study

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Esther_9.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC ombdudsman</strong></p>

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29 Apr

Globe public editor: When the spoiler alert becomes pointless

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Sylvia Stead_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor for <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>There was a brief flurry on Twitter and also an e-mail to me about a spoiler (spoiling?) headline and photograph with a <em>Game of Thrones</em> story.</p>

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28 Apr

Public editor: Star readers don’t want profanity spelled out

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Kathy English_0.PNG" title="" /> <strong>By Kathy English, public editor for the <em>Toronto Star</em></strong></p><div style="clear:none;"><p>“Call me old-fashioned but I don’t want to see foul language printed in full in news media,” wrote reader Barbara Dietrich.</p>

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21 Apr

CBC ombudsman: Headline fair on fake prescription story

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Enkin_13_1_45.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC ombudsman</strong></p><p>The complainant, Gerald Parker, strongly objected to a headline on a brief news story about a Windsor area man pretending to be a doctor trying to sell a prescription for medical marijuana. He thought it was unfair to people seeking relief from medical marijuana. I found the opposite.</p><p>COMPLAINT</p>

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21 Apr

Globe public editor: Not a day for a bland headline

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Stead_6_1_1_81.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>There was a letter to the editor in <em>The Globe and Mail</em> recently from a reader who felt the “PQ crushed” main headline from the front page “smacked of a tabloid.” The reader called it un-Canadian, scornful and narrow-minded.</p>

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17 Apr

Star public editor: Is it time to spell out swear words?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Kathy English_2_1_24.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Kathy English, public editor of the <em>Toronto Star</em></strong></p><p>Though the Star did not spell out the swear word Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau dropped in the boxing ring last week, I can’t imagine any reader could have had any doubt about what that bad word actually was.</p>

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8 Apr

CBC ombudsman: Is it opinion or analysis?

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Esther_7.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman</strong></p>

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8 Apr

Globe public editor: Clichés drive readers up the wall

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Stead_6_1_1_76.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>Clichés and overblown rhetoric drive some readers up the wall. Okay, that was both a cliché and overblown, but you get the point.</p>

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8 Apr

Globe public editor: Should newspapers endorse politicians?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Stead_6_1_1_75.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p>

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4 Apr

CBC ombdusman: Viewers can draw their own conclusions

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Esther Enkin_2.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC ombudsman</strong></p>

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