Press Council dismisses CanWest's Globe and Mail complaint

TORONTO – This week the Ontario Press Council dismissed a complaint filed by CanWest Global Communications over a Globe and Mail column which ran last August. CanWest, owners of The National Post, the Global Television Network and other assets, said that The Globe and Mail failed to follow standard journalistic practice by seeking confirmation of a rumour that CanWest Global Communications was planning to shake up the Global TV network last summer and bring in a new president replacing Richard C. Camilleri, probably with an American. “The item, published Aug. 5, 2004, in a Report on Business gossip column entitled...