Sunday, November 1, 2009

Media aren't the best friends of human rights

Max Yalden, former Languages Commissioner and former chief of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, concludes that what the media frequently dispense as being in the public interest is really just stuff that interests the public, that sells newspapers. He tells Haroon Siddiqui that he too would have dismissed hate-speech allegations against Maclean's.

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