'We Failed.' Toronto Star Publisher Says the Paper's HPV Vaccine Article Let Down Readers

By: Carol Off and Jeff Douglas | CBC

For a week, The Toronto Star has been taking criticism over a story detailing health problems experienced by young women after they took the HPV vaccine. Some in the medical community called it alarmist and scientifically-unsound. The publisher, John Cruickshank, now says the paper failed the public and let them down.

Cruickshank tells As It Happens host Carol Off that he takes responsibility for the way the story was presented. He says editor-in-chief Mike Cooke also takes responsibility.