"'More myth than mortal': Conrad Black hands out copies of the first issue of the National Post to the Post staff in the Toronto newsroom, October 27, 1998."
Posted on 10/27/2022 3:50:08 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
I am literally the worst-timed financial decision in the history of Canadian enterprise. And yet, I’m still here and fully digitized, aren’t I? Every morning, some downtown Toronto sandal-wearer retches at the sight of me for sale at the local newsstand. Every day, some NDP staffer on Parliament Hill sneaks into the bathroom so nobody can see them reading John Ivison on their phone. Journalism schools have entire classes taught by CBC burnouts on how I am a malevolent threat to truth and justice, and their students (bless their hearts) still hit me up for internships....
Well, let’s see who isn’t around in 2022 to celebrate my austere birthday, shall we?
Quebec separatism. Oh, it’s still there, but with the current state of the Parti Québécois I’ve heard tell that if you to Cimetière Saint-Patrice you can literally hear Rene turning in his grave.
The Canadian Wheat Board. I can’t stress how rare it is that Canada opts for “competitive free market” over our preferred course of an inefficient state-controlled monopsony....
And then there’s Jean Chrétien. I was created in part to shake his indominable hold on power at a time when it seemed no mortal force could do so. But this tale of mutual animosity would ultimately become a love story. With the passage of time I came to appreciate le p’tit gars de Shawinigan as a balancer of budgets and a choker of protesters....
And thus, has this ill-timed 20-something bastard of a newspaper come to occupy a comfortable niche in the country it loves so very much. I mean, really, where else are you going to find eminently readable stories penned by a diverse cross-section of reporters and columnists who are right at the centre of the action?...
And it shows in the final product ....
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
It's not easy to start a major newspaper at any time, but Conrad Black did it in 1998 ... even in this Digital Age, there's still a market for good writing and clear thinking that defies the usual "leftist prison" of thinking
(never understood why nobody started a "conservative" national newspaper in the US, there would be a huge untapped market!)
By "conservative" you mean neoconservative, and no one is interested. You should probably Google National Review and the Bulwark.
I never said “neoconservative”, dude
you’re just making **** up again, as usual
The National Post is a neoconservative mouthpiece.
of course it’s not
as usual, you’re lying
YOU support Putin, so YOU support the warmongers and neocons
get lost Russian apologist
David Frum is it’s chief editor, so yeah, it’s 100% neoconservative.
WRONG - current editor is Anne-Marie Owens
as usual, you’re lying
>>never understood why nobody started a “conservative” national newspaper in the US
USA Today started that way. It was right-of-center at its founding.
Reading the comments section of NP (and posting there) has always been the best part... that and reading the meanderings of Conrad Black or the sarcasm of Rex Murphy.
One of the commenters to the article today made note of the $604 million dollar fund that Trudeau created in 2019 for the legacy media under the guise of some ‘covid relief’ and that this was topped up by $63 million just prior to the last federal election. What a disaster that has been.... a strategic gutting of the media with taxpayers’ money to turn them into official lapdogs and stenographers of any message the guvmint wants to foist on the great unwashed. Best to get one’s news from Rebel Media and True North who of course didn’t take any of those giveaways that removed any semblance of objectivity.
If the NP is ticking off Russia and its apologists (like you),
then it must be doing something right :)
The NP tick me off? Before you posted this slop I didn’t know it existed.
Stewart Bainum, the owner of the Choice Hotel chain recently started the Baltimore Banner, an online news source.
I’ve stayed 70 nights this year in Choice hotels. One of my only gripes is that their website isn’t very good. Normally it works, but when you’re sitting on the side of the road trying to find the nearest hotel and it locks up, it’s pretty frustrating.
He’s a former elected democrat so I don’t expect much from the newspaper
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