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A Modest Opinion – You can’t keep a good media baron down

05/08/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Nathaniel Moher If you were to keep a list of the top three media barons who have gone to jail, it’d look a little something like this: Martha Stewart, John Rigas, and Conrad Black (and if you haven’t kept a list of the top three media barons who have gone to jail, then you […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: Canada, Conrad Black

Put to bed: The strike that broke the news at The Calgary Herald

02/03/2012 by backofthebook.ca

The Calgary Herald told its striking workers they were about to “jump off a cliff.” By the end, the Herald had gone over the edge, too ~~ Excerpted from Leaving Dublin: Writing My Way From Dublin to Canada, by kind permission of Rocky Mountain Books By Brian Brennan I never envisaged it would end the […]

Filed Under: Put to bed: The strike that broke the news at The Calgary Herald Tagged With: Alberta, books, business, Calgary, Calgary Herald, Canada, Conrad Black, Hollinger, journalism, labour, newspapers, Southam, unions

CanWest Idol

03/17/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher Let’s play CanWest Idol! — in which we decide who should get to buy the bankrupt media company’s assets. The finalists for the TV operation appear to be just two: Shaw Communications and Catalyst Capital. The former is the Alberta-based cable company; the latter is the front-organization for Leonard Asper and New […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Black Press, CanWest, Conrad Black, David Black, Glacier Media, Izzy Asper, Jim Shaw, journalism, Leonard Asper, National Post, newspapers, Paul Godfrey, Shaw Communications, television

Hollinger’s lump of coal

12/28/2009 by backofthebook.ca

By Brian Brennan Why is the mainstream media not covering this story? Why have The Globe and Mail, CBC, The National Post, Maclean’s et al. seemingly missed out on the fact that Hollinger Publishing — Conrad Black’s former newspaper holdings company — has been forced into bankruptcy protection? Why have these national news organizations not […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: CanWest, Conrad Black, Hollinger, law, newspapers, Southam, Sun-Times Media Group

We’re doing Prisoner #18330-424 a disservice

04/13/2009 by backofthebook.ca

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 […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Barbara Amiel, Canada, Conrad Black, journalism, Mark Steyn, National Post

Not all Black

07/13/2007 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher Naomi Klein characterized the trial of Conrad Black as class war. Elsewhere it was posited as a case of dueling tax systems (Canadian v. U.S.) or legal systems (ibid.) I’d say, though, it was a broader culture clash than that, between the populist traditions of the United States (of whom prosecutor Patrick […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, Conrad Black, journalism, magazines, newspapers, U.S.

About that $100,000, Ken . . .

06/06/2007 by backofthebook.ca

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 […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Barbara Amiel, CanWest, Conrad Black, Globe and Mail, journalism, Kenneth Whyte, Maclean's, magazines, Mark Steyn, National Post, New York Times

Send the Conservatives to their room

05/18/2007 by backofthebook.ca

There is an interesting comparison to be made between the last minority government (Liberal) and this one (Conservative). Under the Liberal minority, the New Democrats got a lot of governing done. Work that benefitted the public, including the least lucky among us, was passed more promptly than usual because if the Liberals did not play […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, Conrad Black, Conservatives, Liberals, National Post

Nice!

05/18/2007 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher Maclean’s gaily partisan coverage of the Conrad Black trial has now spread from Mark Steyn’s blog to what we thought was its straight news reporting (if there’s such a thing in Maclean’s anymore). “In a piece that cries out for a copy editor like a wounded seal pup for its mother,” writes […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Conrad Black, journalism, Maclean's, magazines, Mark Steyn, online media

Blogging the bloggers at the Black trial, II

05/09/2007 by backofthebook.ca

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 […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Barbara Amiel, Conrad Black, David Radler, journalism, Maclean's, magazines, Mark Steyn, newspapers, online media, Toronto Life

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