In Metro Vancouver, Canwest Publishing owns the Vancouver Sun, Province, Vancouver Courier, North Shore News, Burnaby Now, Coquitlam Now, Surrey Now, Delta Optimist, Richmond News, Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Times, and Langley Advance.
What would you think if you were watching the weekend news and the three principals of the newscast departed from their inane “casual” chatter and hyped a commercial product without making it clear that they were performing an advertisement?
Peter C. Newman's new book about media tycoon Izzy Asper says Asper bought more than a dozen daily papers from Conrad Black’s company in 2000 because he wanted to influence national affairs.
It seems okay to trash Muslims because that’s in the Canadian tradition of free speech. But watch out if you go after Sarah Palin and old, white, male Republicans, because that’s just left-wing vitriol.