In more New York Post whoops news, even its sister outlet, Fox, is calling BS on an item. A reporter covering Sting and Trudie Styler's Rainforest Foundation charity completely blew it, wrote Roger Friedman on Sunday. "The writer got it wrong, and left no chance for rebuttal. It was a smear, a hit and run. So let's correct it."

A smack always hurts worse when it comes from your big brother.

But the Post, citing watchdog organization Charity Hound, reported that only 41 percent of the fund raised from last year's concert went to rainforest programs and referred to documents that seem to indicate the charity is hoarding donations. Reporter Isabel Vincent claimed to have made numerous fruitless attempts to contact Sting and Styler via their reps.

Friedman actually talks to Styler, who graciously answers the Post writer's claim that all of the money from a Rainforest fundraiser and dinner should have gone to the cause. Styler says unlike one-off 9/11 or Live Aid concerts, their charity is in for the longhaul. "The Rainforest Foundation is celebrating its 20th year. We wouldn't still be in business or have given out millions of dollars over the years if we'd spent everything we made immediately after it came in." (Friedman says 55 percent of 2006 gross receipts were distributed to programs.) He goes on to pick apart less complex errors in the Post report, citing errors about how many people were present in the Rainforest's local office when reporter Vincent showed up. Vincent said the entire office was out at the Tribeca Film Festival. But there are only four employees in that office, and three of them were there. The fourth, director Christine Halverson, was out at Tribeca—moderating a panel on Indigenous Filmmakers from Brazil at the United Nations, translating Portuguese to English.

When Rupert Murdoch hears about this, you know he's going to require it be settled in a vat of coleslaw in the Post newsroom.