tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post4167068038751440129..comments2024-03-14T14:44:16.020-07:00Comments on The Gazetteer: Is This The First Day Of The Rest Of Canada's Newspapers' Lives?RossKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-29395809384593405022010-03-07T11:32:37.210-08:002010-03-07T11:32:37.210-08:00Spam #143, above since the great Haloscreaming of ...Spam #143, above since the great Haloscreaming of the old comments....RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-84335954530636089042010-03-06T20:25:08.696-08:002010-03-06T20:25:08.696-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-77900636285680137142010-03-06T16:30:25.096-08:002010-03-06T16:30:25.096-08:00Found it.
.Found <a href="http://pacificgazette.blogspot.com/2009/05/campaign-day-26fifty-thousand-in-big.html" rel="nofollow">it</a>.<br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-68205094543600440012010-03-06T16:28:46.993-08:002010-03-06T16:28:46.993-08:00Excellent point Norman.
Will have to go dig up th...Excellent point Norman.<br /><br />Will have to go dig up that video made early in last spring's election campaign wherein Charlie Smith nails Mr. Campbell on that very issue before an off-camera PABlumist jumps in to try and save him (and only makes it worse - ha!)<br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-62120590294841645782010-03-06T13:55:25.929-08:002010-03-06T13:55:25.929-08:00The small press lords have to pay the party in pow...The small press lords have to pay the party in power. Those are rebates for placement of government advertising.<br /><br />Editorial support is one thing but the party needs cash too. You wouldn't expect someone to contribute cash to the Liberals because they support the party out of principle, would you? <br /><br />Ha, that was a trick question because Liberals don't have principles.Norm Farrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06762889793990336381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-85294949915782611332010-03-06T08:35:10.489-08:002010-03-06T08:35:10.489-08:00AnonAbove--
Good point....because if it's Gla...AnonAbove--<br /><br />Good point....because if it's Glacier we just might be in for all Hollingerized Suburban Wastelands all the time.<br /><br />Oh......<br /><br />And there is also that little matter that, unlike CanWest who only gave Mr. Campbell $50,000 during the 2005 election cycle, Glacier actually doubled down and gave him a nice, fat $100K in 2009.<br /><br />Charlie Smith, in the GStraight, wrote a solid foreshadowing backgrounder on this back in <a href="http://www.straight.com/article-248018/glacier-media-makes-100000-donation-bc-liberals" rel="nofollow">August of 2009.</a><br /><br />. <br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-64343202927218119922010-03-05T22:50:07.246-08:002010-03-05T22:50:07.246-08:00Glacier media ,hMMMMMMMMM rings a bell?Glacier media ,hMMMMMMMMM rings a bell?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-4241067627246350332010-03-05T14:44:54.053-08:002010-03-05T14:44:54.053-08:00Anon-Above--
If I were a betting man I would, unf...Anon-Above--<br /><br />If I were a betting man I would, unfortunately, be forced to take pretty short odds on an East (ie. Gravstein) vs West split. <br /><br />It looks like the latter is more competitive....but Mr. Black apparently has deep pocket backing from an equity fund from California that he is associated with through their recent purchase of a big daily in San Diego.<br /><br />Besides the ideological/POV issue, which I agree is problematic, what concerns me most about the spectre of Mr. notConrad purchasing both the Province and the VSun is his penchant for contracting/fusing the properties he buys (and apparently he's doing this right now with with two dailies in Hawaii).<br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-1985005997228003612010-03-05T14:39:59.006-08:002010-03-05T14:39:59.006-08:00MoS-
I agree 100%. Unfortunately, those in the bu...MoS-<br /><br />I agree 100%. Unfortunately, those in the business can probably make a pretty good case for the 'economies of scale' side of the argument....And on that, I'd love to hear from somebody knowledgeable (Mr. W. maybe if it doesn't put him in conflict?)...<br /><br />I think the best we could do, which would be a big step forward would be loophole-free legislation that prevents concentration across various media within defined geographical areas.<br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-40300221971060029042010-03-05T12:55:50.964-08:002010-03-05T12:55:50.964-08:00We have Black Press running our local paper. Tom F...We have Black Press running our local paper. Tom Fletcher and his right side drivel is the feature. The editorials are pap. Don't really cover the news because they basically have 1 reporter. Never disagree with city council or the Lieberals.The worst thing that could happen is Black Press winning the bid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-86707531869170916232010-03-05T09:59:47.449-08:002010-03-05T09:59:47.449-08:00As a fellow left-coaster I can but dream of the da...As a fellow left-coaster I can but dream of the day when we were all released from the bondage of blanket CanWest newspaper monopolies. Up and down this island CanWest controls the community papers and they utterly reek of their master's far right political bent.<br /><br />I agree. Break them up, sell them piecemeal. Concentration of ownership (another fancy term for corporatization) and media cross-ownership (ditto) have transformed Canadian journalism into self-serving collaborators with the Right. That's the sort of disease that, eventually, spawns race-baiters and bigots like Limbaugh, Hannity and Coulter. And it is, in every respect, a disease.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.com