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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 37, No. 11. May 29, 1974
Wiki pulls a sticky
Wiki pulls a sticky
Sir,
I was deeply disturbed to note a blatant misrepresentation of the truth in the court reports of last week's issue of Salient. In the third case reported (an offensive weapon charge) Wiki Oman stated that the magistrate refused to give the defendant his weapon back. Being in court at the time, I was myself pleased to see that Mr Hobbs SM did in fact return the knife to the defendant at his request.
While I appreciate the wonderful job Wiki does in pointing out the inadequacies of our criminal justice system, I feel that it is bloody pointless telling silly little lies for the sake of sensational journalism: this amounts to an insult to the readers of Salient.
For fucks sake Wiki get your facts straight.
Lord Gregory Kenneth Denning M.R.
[We have looked into this matter and our reader is indeed correct — the knife was eventually returned. Our reporter says that she thought the magistrate replied to the request for the return of the knife by saying "I see no reason why you should" whereas in fact, he said "I see no reason why you shouldn't". It was neither our reporter's nor our intention to "tell silly little lies for the sake of sensational journalism ". The return of the knife was only a minor part of the story and a simple mistake was made. We are pleased to correct the mistake and apologise unreservedly to Mr Hobbs SM for having made it. — Ed.]