I miss the days when great writers for the papers. Look at them now, unprincipled, illiterates pumping out propaganda for owners who have money and no ethics.
I recall not long after the Post was launched, their headquarters in the York Mills area of Toronto were vandalized, seemingly by persons acting in the name of openness and tolerance and diversity but only for themselves.
I had kind of a love-loathe relationship with Christie’s writing, dating all the way back to when she wrote for the Toronto Sun. (before that, she wrote for the Toronto Star (aka the “Red Star”). On the plus side, she was very principled, and never wavered from those principles, but sometimes I found the the downright purple prose that she came up with more than a little hard to stomach. When she was with the Sun, she was probably the single biggest reason why the standing joke was that if you tipped The Toronto Sun on its side, the blood would drip out. Very, VERY much sensationalist, tabloid-styled writing. Probably the peak of that phase of her career was her coverage of the Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka trial.
Still, when The Sun fired her, and she wound up at the Post, and subsequently ended up having to tone down some of her editorial style, I’ll admit I felt a little bad for her that Lord Black seemed to have put a leash on her.
I also agreed with her on many things, such as her disdain for Third and Fourth Wave Feminists. She opined (with regards to an exhibition of ‘radical feminist-themed artworks’ (and this quote may not be exact, as it’s to the best of my memory, but I’ll try my best)): “Sometimes it seems as if the piece of art that would most appeal to this group would depict a nude, recently-castrated white male, blindfolded, gagged and in chains, and with excrement smeared all over his face.”
Needless to say, all the usual suspects amongst the Campus “Progressive” groups utterly *despised* her, and would stage protests every time she was invited to speak on campus.