The Toronto Globe and Mail, one of the continent's best news organizations, stepped in it this time. This is from Mediabistro's Morning Media Newsfeed:
Globe And Mail Erroneously Claims Ex-NSA Chief Michael Hayden Killed at LAX (TheWrap)
In yet another in a long list of major breaking news errors committed by major news outlets, Canada's Globe and Mail falsely reported that ex-NSA chief Michael Hayden was killed in Friday's shooting at Los Angeles International Airport. In a report attributed to "Reuters and Associated Press," Globe and Mail wrote "LAPD is reporting Ex-NSA chief Michael Hayden has been shot dead at LAX. Radical Christian group has claimed responsibility on its website." Gawker Canada's Sun News Network and the BBC both repeated the hoax report without a source, and all have since scrubbed the claim from their sites. The Globe and Mail eventually retracted the report and replaced it with the line "Reports that a former NSA chief was among the victims appear to be a hoax."
It appears the hoax first surfaced on a fake breaking news Twitter account with a single tweet.
