One morning in 1996, I got a call from David Radler, chief operating officer of Hollinger International, the company that had just taken control of my paper. He wanted to know why, as editor of the Vancouver Sun, I’d let our business columnist call one of his Howe Street stock-promoter pals a crook.
“Because he is a crook,” I said as neutrally as I could manage.
“Well, of course, he’s a crook,” Radler replied. “Everybody knows he’s a crook. How is that news?”
I feel a little bit that way about The Postmedia Effect, Marc Edge’s latest excoriation of the foreign-financed corporation that has stripped Canada’s biggest newspaper chain as bare as a Christmas turkey after Boxing Day lunch. In each new book, Edge’s outrage and exasperation with...
John Cruickshank has worked as a newspaper editor and publisher, broadcasting executive, and Canadian consul general in Chicago.
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