Whipped by William Deverell

Author:William Deverell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2017-08-23T20:28:51+00:00

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Frank Magazine, Wednesday, July 10

Christie Montieth’s Scoopless Scoop

You have to feel sorry for Christie Montieth. The Ottawa Sun’s hatchet-wielding star columnist got her scoop scooped this week by the Toronto Star’s Jack Feigel.

Despite a month of relentless digging to track down a certain whip-wielding star of an infamous horse opera, Montieth’s front-page spread in the Sun tabloids came as the journalistic letdown of the decade. A month’s work, and beaten by one day.

Blame the powers-that-be at Postmedia. Frozen with fear at the prospect of facing a massive libel suit, they muzzled Christie until she got her facts checked and backgrounded. Doubtless they worried she was the infamous twitterer BDsmother — who, incidentally, has not been heard from since the recording went viral.

Christie vigorously denies being the leaker. But it’s obvious that Margaret Blake’s notorious gossip was bounced around the various Sun newsrooms like a badminton bird, and BDsmother could, for all we know, be some mischief-making cub reporter. That wouldn’t free them from liability. Thus their imposed silence.

That’s how you get scooped. Playing it safe.

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