April 08, 2007

Mark Steyn is friendly with Conrad Black, so perhaps that is why his reporting of the Conrad Black trial is markedly different than that of Reuters. (In particular, Creasey's accounting of the Bora Bora trip, which Steyn ridicules in the language of Black's attorney, doesn't seem so far from reasonable principles of basic cost accounting, as described by the Chicago Tribune). But if Steyn's entertaining account is at all close to reality, prosecutors have a problem.