We’re doing Prisoner #18330-424 a disservice
Posted by admin on April 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment
By Frank Moher
It takes a village to rehabilitate a criminal, and I’m afraid we’ve all been failing Conrad Black. His chief enabler is The National Post, for which I have been known to write myself. The Post has given Prisoner #18330-424 a column, thus allowing him to maintain the delusion that he remains a man [...]
Filed under Media · Tagged with Barbara Amiel, Canada, Conrad Black, journalism, Mark Steyn, National Post
Top 10 web searches of 2008
By Frank Moher
We’re a bit sniffy about top 10 lists at backofthebook.ca, for the reasons outlined here, but we’re very big on checking our web stats. Or at least I am, in my capacity as publisher/editor/chief lackey. Now you may suppose web stats — that is, the numbers showing how many visitors a site has, [...]
Filed under Media · Tagged with Barbara Amiel, Canadian politics, Jian Ghomeshi, online media
About that $100,000, Ken . . .
Posted by admin on June 6, 2007 · 2 Comments
By Frank Moher
Monday’s New York Times contained an article with the hed Trial of Black Raises Conflict Issue, about the game of Twister that Maclean’s has gotten itself into trying to cover the proceedings. It noted that Lady Black is the magazine’s star columnist, and both main trial correspondent Mark Steyn and publisher and editor-in-chief [...]
Filed under Media · Tagged with Barbara Amiel, CanWest, Conrad Black, Globe and Mail, journalism, Kenneth Whyte, Maclean's, magazines, Mark Steyn, New York Times, The National Post
Blogging the bloggers at the Black trial, II
Posted by admin on May 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment
By Frank Moher
Now that the Conrad Black trial has entered its Radlerian phase, with Black’s former capo taking the stand against him, it’s time once again to blog the poor bloggers (and columnists) consigned to Chicago’s federal courthouse.
Question: what is Mark Steyn without his trademark wit? Answer: the rather dull fellow we find currently blogging [...]
Filed under Media · Tagged with Barbara Amiel, Conrad Black, David Radler, journalism, Maclean's, magazines, Mark Steyn, newspapers, online media, Toronto Life
Bowing to Lord Black
Posted by admin on April 4, 2007 · Leave a Comment
By Frank Moher
And now, to blog the bloggers and columnists on the Conrad Black Trial . . .
Even as Christie Blatchford engaged in some generous genital-licking of Mark Steyn as part of her coverage, referring to him as “a very funny columnist” (which is often true), she was also showing him how to do [...]
Filed under Media · Tagged with Barbara Amiel, Christie Blatchford, Conrad Black, Globe and Mail, journalism, Maclean's, magazines, Mark Steyn, newspapers, Toronto Life
Conrad Black good for newspapers? Tell me another one.
Posted by admin on March 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment
By guest blogger Brian Brennan
Now that the merry pranksters at Frank magazine have been outed as the satirists behind the http://www.supportlordblack.com hoax, it behooves us to ask who does support Conrad Black, and why? The March 12th issue of Maclean’s magazine offers an answer: Mark Steyn, a right-wing columnist described by Peter Preston of [...]
Filed under Media · Tagged with Barbara Amiel, Calgary Herald, Conrad Black, Frank magazine, Hollinger, journalism, Maclean's, National Post, newspapers, Southam, Western Standard