Similarly, Le Canard Enchaîné in France is a similar dumping ground for gossip that real newspapers either can't or won't publish, as well as genuine investigatory stuff. (It doesn't run ads, for instance, so it doesn't have to worry about pissing off advertisers.)
So, for instance, when it turns out that the French railways have ordered hundreds of trains that are too big (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/french-railway-operator-sncf-orders-trains-too-big) and the SNCF claims it's just a few hundred, and Le Canard Enchaîné says it's thousands, I'd believe Le Canard.
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Date: 2014-05-21 01:36 pm (UTC)So, for instance, when it turns out that the French railways have ordered hundreds of trains that are too big (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/french-railway-operator-sncf-orders-trains-too-big) and the SNCF claims it's just a few hundred, and Le Canard Enchaîné says it's thousands, I'd believe Le Canard.