I’m so sick of this rag pretending to be an actual newspaper rather than a forty-page editorial section.
This is the paper whose first issue had an article that began “Voters in Winnipeg have a choice for mayor between an open homosexual and a small-town grocer who delivers his own grocieries.”
Between the first and tenth of July, they had fifty-odd articles about the Canadian Alliance leadership race (for a party of 200 000 members) and not one single article about the race for the grand chief of the Assembly of First Nations (which includes 630 000 members).
It’s a vanity press for Conrad Black and it’s a newspaper in the same way Larry Flynt is a photo-journalist.
Sounds like the Deseret News. News for sensitive, young, republican Mormons. Also called the Mo-Mo press by the bulk of SLC.
Yes, they have all the news. As long as it’s slanted toward sensitive, young, republican Mormons. This is the place to find the news about how two young people who were killed in a car wreak is more “important” because they were Mormon. What is never mentioned by this paper is how a pedophile, convicted seven times, is a Mormon bishop.
There’s nothing like the power of the press to impress your particular beliefs! FYI: check the source, folks! Just because some paper makes “it” news, find out who owns the paper and why they think it’s news. Or why they don’t make “news” news.
Three of the four major papers in Vancouver are owned by Emperor Conrad - The Sun, Province, and National Post. I hate them all. Editorials, editorials, and more editorials. The odd smattering of actual news that you get is immediately balanced off with an editorial. The worst offender is the Province, but at least they don’t pretend to be anything but a tabloid. I don’t read the Post regularly, but what I have read hasn’t impressed me at all.
What I don’t understand is why readers enjoy having editorial opinions thrust upon them. I prefer to read the news and form my own opinions. I don’t give a damn what the editor thinks about Stockwell Day or Preston Manning or Svend Robinson. I’d rather make up my mind for myself, thank you very much.
One town I used to live in would have screaming headlines like “Black Man Robs Store,” or “Hispanic Local Official Faces Charges.” My favorite was when people protested the giant lighted Nativity scene (baby Jesus glowed pinkly after the sun went down. Mary was electric blue) placed in front of the court house. “Atheists Try to Remove Nativity.” The article stressed how a “few athiests” had ruined Christmas for everyone. I had been one of the protesters, and as I told the reporter I spoke to, I wasn’t an athiest, and, church-and-state issues aside, I probably wouldn’t have had so much of a problem with it if it hadn’t been so goddam tacky, but you didn’t see THAT in the article.
The National Post started out O.K., but I was waiting to see how long it would take before their editorial bias would show. Most of the articles are unbiased, but the ones that are are rather biased. The editorial columnists are defintely slanted towards the right of the political spectrum. It is definitely overkill having both David and Linda Frum in the same paper. Of course what can you expect from a paper published by that [sarcasm] paragon of fairness and equality [/sarcasm] Conrad Black. The worst part of the whole “Daily Conrad” experience is how he bled the local newspapers. He originally said that their content would be independent of the “National Post”, and that he would make no cuts to the local news and sports departments. Both claims were false. The local content of the “Regina Leader-Post” has dropped dramatically in the last 6 months, and the independent news bureaus in Prince Alber, Regian and Saskatoon have been combined into a monolithic provincial news bureau, which has fewer staffers. The remaining employees are feeling overwhelming pressure to conform to the National Posts viewpoints. The most infamous local example was that they put a hidden video camera in the staff lunchroom of the Leader-Post, in contravention of provincial labour laws. They hid it behind the clock and it was only discovered when they moved the clock (Someone was watching too much James Bond).
I could go on, but this is getting rather long already.