In May 1983, the Calgary Sun, a sensationalist tabloid, ran the headline "'Holocaust a lie,'" in inch-high letters, across a full-page article on Jim Keegstra. A large photo showed the Eckville teacher smiling in an easy chair, reading an issue of Holocaust News with the headline "'Holocaust' Story an Evil Hoax." In a Sunday edition, the Edmonton Sun published one article in which a professor of history at the University of Alberta stated that "the basic facts of the Holocaust are beyond doubt," and another article in which Keegstra claimed that six million Jews could not possibly have been murdered during the war. In yet a third instance, this time in the Lethbridge Herald, an anonymous letter writer was allotted thirty-four column inches to detail the "Holocaust as hoax" and Jewish world-conspiracy myths. Sometimes even a serious paper lost its perspective, as occurred when a Calgary Herald story...