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NOV 14/07
New Brunswickers stuck with Irvings
As for New Brunswickers, it is all over. We will never see the print media in New Brunswick owned by anyone other than the Irving family, unless they decide.
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JLY 26/06
Media dictating foreign policy for Canada?
I don't know about you, but I'm really getting concerned about the print media in Canada. When I read in the front pages of CanWest's Ottawa Citizen really heavy pro-war stuff , as if we, the citizens of Canada, held a mandate and decided to declare war, or ARE at war,  I wonder if it is just me that has missed the vote on this mandate?
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SEP 22/04
Newsroom insurgents get around 'terror' policy
(Re: News stories about CanWest editors altering Reuters and Associated Press copy to suit their chain-wide policy on whom to call 'terrorist') What isn't clear from the New York Times story on the controversy is whether the Times itself realizes that its copy, too, is undergoing "terrorizing" at the hands of CanWest.
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MAY 25/04
Fireworks fizzle
If it bleeds $200 million from the CanWest Global balance sheet, you can be sure of one thing. It won't be allowed to lead in any of the company's many newspapers. No matter that it's obviously one of the biggest Canadian business stories of the day.
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APR 16/04
Low freelance rates chill diversity
Freelance writers are collateral damage in union-management battle.
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MAR 30/04
Agendas of powerful evident in newspaper operations
As one who worked for The Vancouver Sun for three plus years under the Black and Asper ownerships, I had a close look at how agendas of the powerful were reflected in the operations of the paper.
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MAR 17/04
Editing Conrad Black was verboten
It was my great misfortune as a copy editor to be given the task of laying out and handling the copy on a page that contained yet another publish-or-else opus penned by Conrad Black when he owned the Southam newspapers.
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