All the news that's fit to ignore

Only a few weeks ago, David Marr overlooked the story of the week when he buried revelations in his own book that a school principal was helping a photographer scout for nude models.

This week the Sydney Morning Herald is carrying two articles by Marr about former terror suspect, Mohammed Haneef. The titles for these articles might as well be "nothing to see here," but the content in one of them reads:

'But half a world away the Australian Federal Police is still pursuing him. The AFP submission to the Clarke inquiry into Dr Haneef's arrest, detention, charging and prosecution last year claims a disturbing pamphlet from an unidentified organisation and an audio file from an unknown author 'linked to' al-Qaeda were found in Dr Haneef's Gold Coast apartment.

He was never questioned about these at the time. Dr Haneef told the Herald: "It's probably some pamphlets distributed in mosques when I was in the UK in my files. It doesn't mean I follow such things."

He had many audio files on his laptop, he said.

"Because it's there doesn't mean it's my view or my opinion.'

This is not the first time that Herald headlines have been known to come into conflict with the content of the articles.