Lane Takes Wrong Turn

We have a revelation for you.

You can’t believe everything you read in newspapers or on the Internet for that matter.

While that may be obvious to you, it would appear that radio personality and print journalist Terry Lane has fallen for another hoax.

In a recent column for the highly respected Age newspaper in Melbourne, Lane claims that park rangers at the world-famous Grand Canyon were banned from answering questions about the age of the park "because the truth will upset Bush's (religious) fundamentalist supporters".

Again like the column six months earlier, Lane’s assertions were false using, ‘spurious Internet claims to back anti-George W. Bush attacks in the paper’.

While high profile political leaders typically ignore the effect sloppy and sometimes slanderous reporting has on their reputation, there are times where private citizens should take action against defamation.

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