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Random House starts apologizing for Marci McDonald's errors

By Ezra Levant on July 16, 2010 2:11 AM | | |

The first letter of apology has been issued by Random House's New York head office, as a result of Marci McDonald's countless errors in her bigoted book The Armageddon Factor.

Most of her factual errors are not defamatory, they're just embarrassing to McDonald, who proved she really wasn't ready to write a book about Canadian politics. But some of her errors were defamatory, such as her allegation that Terry O'Neill concealed a conflict of interest when he wrote about an advocacy group.

Here's Random House's apology (in .pdf format), including their promise to fix the error in all subsequent editions, the electronic edition and perhaps make other amends.

I know that most people who were smeared by McDonald aren't likely to go to the time and expense of hiring a lawyer; but O'Neill did, and Random House's response shows that they are clearly worried about the editorial integrity of the book, and potential legal liability.

It's an embarrassing end to long career for McDonald.

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