We should all be so lucky that when some allegedly scandalous piece of news enters the you-must-take-notice infosphere, an editor has paused to chant thrice over: context, context, context.

Thanks to sub-prime reporting, vast numbers of English speakers are under the impression that freshly minted Oscar recipient Marion Cotillard recently stood on a soapbox in France to cast aspersions on the U.S. government, the victims of the ghastly events of September 11, 2001 and...