George Galloway cleared of appeal fund wrongdoing

[NashVegas]

wow, here's one that flew underneath our radar. talk about buried ...

http://scotlandtoday.scottishtv.co.uk/content/default.asp?page=s1_1_1&newsid=4192

Controversial Glasgow MP George Galloway has been cleared of any wrongdoing over an appeal fund he set up.

A year-long investigation by the Charity Commission found that money raised by the Mariam Appeal to help sick Iraqis was spent correctly.

more in the Guardian

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1249136,00.html

also made it into BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3847287.stm

DU, we are slipping.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. Well, we all expected this.

It was such an obvious smear on an easy target.

[NashVegas]

2. Here's an Even Funnier One

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&edition=us&tab=wn&q=george+galloway+cleared&btnG=Search+News

check out the ledes and tell me what's wrong with the picture.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. I give up

Is 'ledes' a typo for something?

[NashVegas]

5. "Ledes"

is the term used for top portions (headline, sub-head) of a news story

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Thanks - I never knew that

But I'm still not sure what you're getting at - assuming the stories are still the same now as they were when you first posted. Is it that everyone uses 'cleared' in the headline except the Telegraph, which says 'criticised'? Are you really that surprised? I believe his libel suit against them is still going.

[LittleApple81]

3. True. The CSM apologized a long time ago for lending credibility

to fake documents "found in Iraq by journalists...just laying around!" but I had not heard of this. Thanks.