It’s the case of the mysterious vanishing story.
Where once there was a story, there now is a vacuum. Actually a picture of a vacuum would fill the blank space nicely.
Here’s a picture of their story today:
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I did not make this up.
And the case of the story which suddenly became written by somebody else.
Just yesterday, I blogged about the new challenge for the tea and bun set (you know who you are *cough*liberals*cough*), when reporter Chris Wattie of the National Post reported in a story that the Iranians had decided to pass a law forcing Jews and other non-Muslims to wear special clothing or badges to clearly identify them—Nazi style.
Apparently that story turned out to be untrue. Somebody, we don’t know who, they’re not saying, made it up. They did make this up. In our Cities. In Canada.
I linked to the story. It was on their front page yesterday. Click here for a picture of their May 19 front page. The story went like this:
Law would require non-Muslim insignia
Chris Wattie, National Post
Published: Friday, May 19, 2006Human rights groups are raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country’s Jews and Christians to wear coloured badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims. […]
Today Chris Wattie reports that somebody else reported it. And the original story has vanished off the face of the earth. Try the link now.
Here’s the new story. Note how Chris Wattie suddenly didn’t report the first story, which vanished into thin air. Someone else did.
Iranian embassy denies dress code
Chris Wattie; with files from Allan Woods, National Post, with files from CanWest News Service
Published: Saturday, May 20, 2006Several experts are casting doubt on reports that Iran had passed a law requiring the country’s Jews and other religious minorities to wear coloured badges identifying them as non-Muslims.
The Iranian embassy in Otttawa [SIC] also denied the Iranian government had passed such a law.
A news story and column by Iranian-born analyst Amir Taheri in yesterday’s National Post reported that the Iranian parliament had passed a sweeping new law this week outlining proper dress for Iran’s majority Muslims, including an order for Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians to wear special strips of cloth.
According to the reports, Jews were to wear yellow cloth strips, called zonnar, while Christians were to wear red and Zoroastrians blue. […]
Note that nowhere in the original story did Chris Wattie ever mention “Iranian-born analyst Amir Taheri”.
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