Seriously. Bye bye. I'm hearing rumours Jonathon Kay and his momma are already brushing up on their burger flipping skills. Unless mom can get a job as a professional harridan.
Showing posts with label Death of the National Post. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Death of the National Post. Show all posts
Friday, October 28, 2011
Die Postmedia Die!
TORONTO Postmedia Network Canada Corp. will roll out a plan to charge readers for online content to more of its newspapers as it struggles with lower advertising and print circulation income.
Seriously. Bye bye. I'm hearing rumours Jonathon Kay and his momma are already brushing up on their burger flipping skills. Unless mom can get a job as a professional harridan.
Seriously. Bye bye. I'm hearing rumours Jonathon Kay and his momma are already brushing up on their burger flipping skills. Unless mom can get a job as a professional harridan.
Monday, February 01, 2010
National Post: One Editorial, Two Falsehoods
From their Feb 1, 2010 editorial:
The blows to the IPCC's integrity have been so great that even Andrew Weaver --a Canadian climate scientist, prominent member of the IPCC, and himself an enthusiastic champion of the prevailing theory that human industrial activity is making the world hotter -- has called for the resignation of the agency's chairman, Indian economist Rajendra Pachauri.
...a claim which Andrew Weaver denied not 24 hours earlier in another CanWest newspaper:
A recent article published on Jan. 27 in many Canwest papers suggested I believe that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was tainted by political advocacy, that its chairman should resign, and that its approach to science should be overhauled. These statements do not accurately reflect my views.
And the 2nd one:
For instance, since it was revealed two weeks ago that the IPCC had relied on speculation by an environmental interest group -- rather than peer-reviewed science -- when it made its famous 2007 claim that there was a 90% chance all 15,000 glaciers in the Himalayas would be melted by 2035, the agency's lead glacier scientist, Murari Lal, has admitted he knew the data was faulty when he inserted it in the UN's last official Assessment Report, but he did so nonetheless because "we thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action."
This "admission" 1st appears in a story by U.K. Daily Mail columnist David Rose, but was swiftly denied by Lal himself. Furthermore, Mr. Rose seems to have a problem with attributing comments to scientists that they later claim to not have made. He's up to three now, all within the last couple of months.
Its worth pointing out at this point that the only way to get the National Post to retract falsehoods is to threaten legal action.
PS. Four! Rose is up to four misquoted scientists!
The blows to the IPCC's integrity have been so great that even Andrew Weaver --a Canadian climate scientist, prominent member of the IPCC, and himself an enthusiastic champion of the prevailing theory that human industrial activity is making the world hotter -- has called for the resignation of the agency's chairman, Indian economist Rajendra Pachauri.
...a claim which Andrew Weaver denied not 24 hours earlier in another CanWest newspaper:
A recent article published on Jan. 27 in many Canwest papers suggested I believe that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was tainted by political advocacy, that its chairman should resign, and that its approach to science should be overhauled. These statements do not accurately reflect my views.
And the 2nd one:
For instance, since it was revealed two weeks ago that the IPCC had relied on speculation by an environmental interest group -- rather than peer-reviewed science -- when it made its famous 2007 claim that there was a 90% chance all 15,000 glaciers in the Himalayas would be melted by 2035, the agency's lead glacier scientist, Murari Lal, has admitted he knew the data was faulty when he inserted it in the UN's last official Assessment Report, but he did so nonetheless because "we thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action."
This "admission" 1st appears in a story by U.K. Daily Mail columnist David Rose, but was swiftly denied by Lal himself. Furthermore, Mr. Rose seems to have a problem with attributing comments to scientists that they later claim to not have made. He's up to three now, all within the last couple of months.
Its worth pointing out at this point that the only way to get the National Post to retract falsehoods is to threaten legal action.
PS. Four! Rose is up to four misquoted scientists!
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Don't Use The National Post For Anything But Fish Wrap
Put aside the content for a moment, this is supposed to be a message from the Leader of the Opposition, who may become PM someday:
So far so good: no misspellings in the title, which believe it or not is not a slam dunk in the NP. But then, about 30 lines in,
Bung Job! Or, put it another way: either Iggy's a moron, or somebody on the NP editorial staff is. I know where I'm placing my bets.
And then, a little later
...Iggy apparently breaks into free verse!
Seriously, if you wrote this stuff up in grade school you'd get flunked, and 30 seconds worth of proof-reading could have fixed everything. What are they thinking over there? "Six days, and darkness, sweet darkness, shall claim us all!"
So far so good: no misspellings in the title, which believe it or not is not a slam dunk in the NP. But then, about 30 lines in,Bung Job! Or, put it another way: either Iggy's a moron, or somebody on the NP editorial staff is. I know where I'm placing my bets.And then, a little later
...Iggy apparently breaks into free verse!Seriously, if you wrote this stuff up in grade school you'd get flunked, and 30 seconds worth of proof-reading could have fixed everything. What are they thinking over there? "Six days, and darkness, sweet darkness, shall claim us all!"
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Sun Staffers Lose Their Perks
From the Sun Family blog:
Sun Media employees who took advantage of free home delivery have been told that little bonus has been axed.
Instead, employees will be given free access to the e-edition of their newspaper.
From the comments:
At my unnamed Sun, when we asked for complimentary home delivery for newsroom staffers, we were told there are plenty of free copies in the newsroom. Back to rowing your slave ship and don't worry about reading!
Meanwhile, Paul Wells insists that the far right ideology behind CanWest's newspapers has nothing to do with their precipitous decline. As evidence, he cites the sorry state of a bunch of American publications, which seems of dubious relevance. Sure times are tough all over, but in Canada the further Right your newspaper, the further down the toilet its likely to have slid.
You listening, Kenneth Whyte?
Sun Media employees who took advantage of free home delivery have been told that little bonus has been axed.
Instead, employees will be given free access to the e-edition of their newspaper.
From the comments:
At my unnamed Sun, when we asked for complimentary home delivery for newsroom staffers, we were told there are plenty of free copies in the newsroom. Back to rowing your slave ship and don't worry about reading!
Meanwhile, Paul Wells insists that the far right ideology behind CanWest's newspapers has nothing to do with their precipitous decline. As evidence, he cites the sorry state of a bunch of American publications, which seems of dubious relevance. Sure times are tough all over, but in Canada the further Right your newspaper, the further down the toilet its likely to have slid.
You listening, Kenneth Whyte?
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
And You Will Also Have To Share A Desk With A Stinky Journalist
Further to this story about CanWest's desperate attempts to cut costs:
CanWest Gobal has asked federal regulators for a ruling that will reduce diversity of news coverage and “gut newsrooms,” says a representative of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers (CEP), the union that represents many CanWest employees.
CanWest's plan is collapse their newspaper and television staff into one homogeneous blob of scribbling humanity, and thus save money by having journalists prepare stories for several media. Of course, even if this goes through there will be culture clashes within the newly merged units. For example, because tv journalists perform before an audience of millions, they are required to bathe. Some of the print reporters at the National Post...well, lets just say that you can smell them over the phone. And you don' t want the camera inadvertently catching one of your print guys chugging a mickey behind his desk at 7:00 AM. Care will have to be taken.
There's also a rumor going around that the National Post has made all of its bathrooms unisex, and is leasing out the freed-up space to a group of mycologists who are attempting to raise Shitake mushrooms in these dark, dank holes. But that's more a rumour I'm trying to start than one I am trying to spread.
CanWest Gobal has asked federal regulators for a ruling that will reduce diversity of news coverage and “gut newsrooms,” says a representative of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers (CEP), the union that represents many CanWest employees.
CanWest's plan is collapse their newspaper and television staff into one homogeneous blob of scribbling humanity, and thus save money by having journalists prepare stories for several media. Of course, even if this goes through there will be culture clashes within the newly merged units. For example, because tv journalists perform before an audience of millions, they are required to bathe. Some of the print reporters at the National Post...well, lets just say that you can smell them over the phone. And you don' t want the camera inadvertently catching one of your print guys chugging a mickey behind his desk at 7:00 AM. Care will have to be taken.
There's also a rumor going around that the National Post has made all of its bathrooms unisex, and is leasing out the freed-up space to a group of mycologists who are attempting to raise Shitake mushrooms in these dark, dank holes. But that's more a rumour I'm trying to start than one I am trying to spread.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Juliet O'Neill Now Covering Several Things That Stink
Canwest demotes their environment beat reporter:
...word on the street is that Canwest reporter Juliet O’Neill will now be covering off environment reporting for the CanWest chain, while at the same time covering the goings-on of the two main national political parties, the Liberals and the NDP, as well Heritage Canada and issues affecting Alberta.
And Jonathon Kay is now official coffee-maker. Ezra comes in three times a week to do the toilets.
...word on the street is that Canwest reporter Juliet O’Neill will now be covering off environment reporting for the CanWest chain, while at the same time covering the goings-on of the two main national political parties, the Liberals and the NDP, as well Heritage Canada and issues affecting Alberta.
And Jonathon Kay is now official coffee-maker. Ezra comes in three times a week to do the toilets.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Canoe In Deep Decline
It looks like the National Post isn't the only paper in trouble. The London Free Press, part of Quebecor's Canoe chain of newspapers, has scrapped its Sunday Edition.
Yet another media outlet that's too right-wing for Canada? Or is it something more?
Yet another media outlet that's too right-wing for Canada? Or is it something more?
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Dear Jon...,
Michael Ignatieff figures out a way to link himself to Adscam
Posted: December 11, 2008, 8:12 AM by Jonathan Kay
Jonathan Kay
All the details on Ezra Levant's must-read blog here.
...under certain circumstances, linking to defamatory material is also defamatory.
Now, google-cache results take about a day to appear, so we won't know for awhile if Jonathon Kay found a stinking fish on Full Comment this morning and disappeared it in a panic, or whether he is simply trying to keep Ezra at least a few links distant.
Posted: December 11, 2008, 8:12 AM by Jonathan Kay
Jonathan Kay
All the details on Ezra Levant's must-read blog here.
...under certain circumstances, linking to defamatory material is also defamatory.
Now, google-cache results take about a day to appear, so we won't know for awhile if Jonathon Kay found a stinking fish on Full Comment this morning and disappeared it in a panic, or whether he is simply trying to keep Ezra at least a few links distant.
Friday, December 05, 2008
Merry Xmas!
Canwest stocks at $0.58!I can see them across the road at the National Post. Looks like they've cut power to the building, cuz Jonathon Kay is stuffing his coat with yesterday's newspaper. Someone else is burning fallen leaves for warmth.
h/t TG in comments.
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Paul Godfrey To Natty Post
Over 8 years, he made the Blue Jays a .500 ball-club. Can he get Canwest shares up over $1.00?
(Incidentally, Godfrey's name always seems to come up around municipal election time. I guess this takes him out of the running for 2010. Who then shall save TO from David Miller?)
(Incidentally, Godfrey's name always seems to come up around municipal election time. I guess this takes him out of the running for 2010. Who then shall save TO from David Miller?)
Friday, November 14, 2008
CanWest Unionists Can't Ride Well
Some otherwise good advise to the Aspers spoiled by pur spelink:
CanWest, Canada's largest media company, now has its stocks trading forpennies not dollars. As with financial institutions south of the border, it isa victim of its own greed. There will be no bail-out, it needs to sell [media holdings] to haveany hope of riding the ship.
CNW charges $2.30 for each of those words, fellas. Don't go wrecking any of them.
CanWest, Canada's largest media company, now has its stocks trading forpennies not dollars. As with financial institutions south of the border, it isa victim of its own greed. There will be no bail-out, it needs to sell [media holdings] to haveany hope of riding the ship.
CNW charges $2.30 for each of those words, fellas. Don't go wrecking any of them.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Rachel Marsden On The Plight Of The National Post
...frankly, they can bite it.
And biting it they apparently are.
PS. Click through the first link to read Rachel Marsden talking dirty. I mean real dirty.
And biting it they apparently are.
PS. Click through the first link to read Rachel Marsden talking dirty. I mean real dirty.
Saturday, November 01, 2008
National Post Cuts Back In National Capital!
You will no longer be able to buy copies of the National Post out of a vendor box in Ottawa as of Midnight tonight. I've heard this from two sources, one being this anonymous commenter on Bourrie's site, the other an Ottawa area resident (via private e-mail) who helpfully suggests that the boxes be converted to ice-cream machines.
Here's the reason behind all the gloom:
Bond rating agency DBRS said yesterday that it was putting Canwest Media Inc.'s debt ratings under review for a possible downgrade, citing a Canadian advertising market that has "weakened substantially." DBRS said it was "likely" the situation could have a material impact on Canwest's advertising-dependent conventional television business and could put pressure on the company's debt covenants.
Similarly, Moody's Investors Service on Thursday also put the long-term debt ratings associated with Canwest companies under review.
"Moody's also believes it is more likely that Canwest will have to sell assets in order to address 2010/2011 refinancing milestones related to last year's acquisition of the former Alliance Atlantis' specialty television operations, and that the related divestiture proceeds will be below earlier expectations."
Update: Jerad has photo evidence of the Natty Post's demise in Toronto.
Here's the reason behind all the gloom:
Bond rating agency DBRS said yesterday that it was putting Canwest Media Inc.'s debt ratings under review for a possible downgrade, citing a Canadian advertising market that has "weakened substantially." DBRS said it was "likely" the situation could have a material impact on Canwest's advertising-dependent conventional television business and could put pressure on the company's debt covenants.
Similarly, Moody's Investors Service on Thursday also put the long-term debt ratings associated with Canwest companies under review.
"Moody's also believes it is more likely that Canwest will have to sell assets in order to address 2010/2011 refinancing milestones related to last year's acquisition of the former Alliance Atlantis' specialty television operations, and that the related divestiture proceeds will be below earlier expectations."
Update: Jerad has photo evidence of the Natty Post's demise in Toronto.
Friday, October 31, 2008
National Post Getting Less National All The Time
Bourrie observes:
Friends tell me notices have appeared on National Post boxes in downtown Toronto saying they will no longer be serviced after Saturday. Similar (or the same) notices popped up on boxes at service centres on Highway 401 east of Toronto earlier this week.
He also points out that the paper is essentially high-tailing it out of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Another, perhaps relevant series of factoids: BCLSB regular Jermo Sapiens recently placed this piece in both the National Post's on-line and print editions, but received nothing in the way of recompense. Now, I remember The Star publishing some of my stuff as Op-Eds back in the 1990s, at which time they paid out $150 per article. Finally, if you read the on-line NP these days, you'll see a fair bit of content being supplied by various Blogging Tories (Taylor and Janke esp.). So, as things go sour on The Natty Post, are they turning to writers who are willing to wordsmith for free? Are they using bloggers as unpaid labor?
PS. The Natty Post website is silent on what they pay for Op-Eds.
Friends tell me notices have appeared on National Post boxes in downtown Toronto saying they will no longer be serviced after Saturday. Similar (or the same) notices popped up on boxes at service centres on Highway 401 east of Toronto earlier this week.
He also points out that the paper is essentially high-tailing it out of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Another, perhaps relevant series of factoids: BCLSB regular Jermo Sapiens recently placed this piece in both the National Post's on-line and print editions, but received nothing in the way of recompense. Now, I remember The Star publishing some of my stuff as Op-Eds back in the 1990s, at which time they paid out $150 per article. Finally, if you read the on-line NP these days, you'll see a fair bit of content being supplied by various Blogging Tories (Taylor and Janke esp.). So, as things go sour on The Natty Post, are they turning to writers who are willing to wordsmith for free? Are they using bloggers as unpaid labor?
PS. The Natty Post website is silent on what they pay for Op-Eds.
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
CanWest Death Spiral Continues
Bourrie is away this week, so I am left to continue his gloating over the slow, agonizing demise of CanWest Media, owner of the National Post and other far-right rag. A month ago it was at $3.60 a share, last Friday $2.38, and at yesterday's close...$2.12. How much longer can this go on without the company being delisted?And what is behind this inexorable decline?
We'll see if there's anyone outside the Southam building this morning selling pencils out of a cup. That's become a common sight these days.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Advice To Andrew Coyne: Sack Steyn, Bring Wells Home
Congratulations to Andrew Coyne for abandoning his position at the Natty Post for the job of National Editor, Maclean’s magazine. You're getting out just in time, Andrew. I hear that, with Conrad bound for the Pokey, the Post is due to go tits up any day now.
Hopefully, you will bring a bit of moderation to Old Mac. Under Whyte's regime it has gone entirely downhill, especially after they hired that freak Mark Steyn. You know how I knew that Conrad Black was fated to have prison sex in the showers with a big black inmate named Leroy? Steyn kept declaring him innocent!
And here's the deal: fire Steyn, give me an email address, and I will send you my portfolio. Find out what they were paying him for his bullshit, and I will do roughly the same thing for $100 per column less. Old Mac will be able to reclaim the political center, and I will write at least one column about boobies per month, which should help keep a healthy portion of Steyn's original readers.
Also, if you need someone to talk in front of cameras, I can do that. Since I'm a homegrown Canadian and a child of the public health system, and he an Englishman, I imagine my teeth are in far better shape. I can also fake an accent, if you think that would sound more authoritative: "Oi Govna!"
Something like that, right?
I'll need a suit though. I expect Macleans to pick up the tab on that.
As my second bit of advice, order Paul Wells back to Canada. He is wasted over there in France because, frankly, who cares about the French? His columns have suffered horribly, and his recent blog posts have been all but unreadable:
Day 1: Ate snails.
Day 2: Ate more snails.
Day 3: Saw a guy masturbating on the Paris underground. He seemed entirely without shame.
Day 4: Ate more snails...someone kill me now.
So get our boy Wells back, and send Mr. Steyn packing. Okay?
Hopefully, you will bring a bit of moderation to Old Mac. Under Whyte's regime it has gone entirely downhill, especially after they hired that freak Mark Steyn. You know how I knew that Conrad Black was fated to have prison sex in the showers with a big black inmate named Leroy? Steyn kept declaring him innocent!
And here's the deal: fire Steyn, give me an email address, and I will send you my portfolio. Find out what they were paying him for his bullshit, and I will do roughly the same thing for $100 per column less. Old Mac will be able to reclaim the political center, and I will write at least one column about boobies per month, which should help keep a healthy portion of Steyn's original readers.
Also, if you need someone to talk in front of cameras, I can do that. Since I'm a homegrown Canadian and a child of the public health system, and he an Englishman, I imagine my teeth are in far better shape. I can also fake an accent, if you think that would sound more authoritative: "Oi Govna!"
Something like that, right?
I'll need a suit though. I expect Macleans to pick up the tab on that.
As my second bit of advice, order Paul Wells back to Canada. He is wasted over there in France because, frankly, who cares about the French? His columns have suffered horribly, and his recent blog posts have been all but unreadable:
Day 1: Ate snails.
Day 2: Ate more snails.
Day 3: Saw a guy masturbating on the Paris underground. He seemed entirely without shame.
Day 4: Ate more snails...someone kill me now.
So get our boy Wells back, and send Mr. Steyn packing. Okay?
Friday, July 13, 2007
Guilty, Guilty, Four Times GUILTY!
According to CTV:
The jury at the fraud trial for Conrad Black has found the former media baron guilty on four of 13 counts in his fraud and racketeering trial, including the serious charge of obstruction of justice.
Break out the bubbly!
And you know, from where I'm sitting now I am looking South on the Southam Building, the home of the National Post and Barad-dûr of Mr Black's evil empire(before it all went for shit and was taken away from him).
And I have to admit I have never heard a building scream before! It is though its spirit has been torn from the very brick! The structure itself appears to have sagged, as in Death!
And there's a helicopter landed in the rear parking lot, taking Andrew Coyne back to Winnipeg! And there's a UFO hovering over the roof, taking Jonathon Kay back to wherever the fuck he comes from! And whose that wheeling a chairload of computers and office supplies out to his car? Hey, Kinsella, put that stuff back! You can't do that!
It's over! The Lord Of Blackness is going to the pokey, where he will either have to learn to fight, or marry the convict with the most cigarettes! Its over! A great shadow has been lifted from the land!
The jury at the fraud trial for Conrad Black has found the former media baron guilty on four of 13 counts in his fraud and racketeering trial, including the serious charge of obstruction of justice.
Break out the bubbly!
And you know, from where I'm sitting now I am looking South on the Southam Building, the home of the National Post and Barad-dûr of Mr Black's evil empire(before it all went for shit and was taken away from him).
And I have to admit I have never heard a building scream before! It is though its spirit has been torn from the very brick! The structure itself appears to have sagged, as in Death!
And there's a helicopter landed in the rear parking lot, taking Andrew Coyne back to Winnipeg! And there's a UFO hovering over the roof, taking Jonathon Kay back to wherever the fuck he comes from! And whose that wheeling a chairload of computers and office supplies out to his car? Hey, Kinsella, put that stuff back! You can't do that!
It's over! The Lord Of Blackness is going to the pokey, where he will either have to learn to fight, or marry the convict with the most cigarettes! Its over! A great shadow has been lifted from the land!
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