“Now, where do I go to get my reputation back?” So reads a famous paraphrase of Reagan-era Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan, who expressed the sentiment after his high-profile 1980s acquittal on fraud and grand-larceny charges. As is virtually always the case, it’s easier being cleared in a court of law than in the court of public opinion. This is especially true when the media are intensely interested in covering damning charges against you, but almost totally uninterested in publicizing your exoneration.

This could come to mind with the further debunking of a vicious anti-Christian racial hoax, one that led to “retaliatory” 2021 church burnings in Canada: the claim that “mass child graves” were discovered at Catholic and Protestant residential schools for Indian students.

Even at the time, as we related in the article “Churches Burn in Canada Based on Blood-libel Myth” in our August 23, 2021 issue, those with discerning eyes knew there was no actual evidence of mass child graves. This didn’t stop The New York Times from writing in June 2021, in what commentator Andrea Widburg called a “representative article,” the following:

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