Deep Impact

28 Replies to “Deep Impact”

1. That is good news! More, faster please.

2. At least we can still comment here without selling our soul to the librul Zuckerberg like HA. Judging from the threads of the last few years, SDA has been fighting the librul Canadian News manufacturers for some time. Now, it looks like the politicians are trying to bring the weight of the government legal system against the Conservative side. Keep up the good work Kate.

3. All those trees being killed for newspaper to print about the devastating impacts of global warming are finally going to be saved.

4. The only place I go for Conservative news in Canada- Small Dead Animals.
   I do pity the little birds trapped in bird cages having to look at tin foil instead of newsprint..
   Many will start suffering from Post Traumatic Press Disorder..

5. It’s only a matter of time. I’m a home delivery subscriber of our local paper, all dozen pages of it. Mainly for the comics and crossword. When I was out of town a couple of weeks ago they changed up the comics, dropping a favourite strip. If they touch the crossword then I am gone.

6. “I do pity the little birds trapped in bird cages having to look at tin foil instead of newsprint..”
   Use supermarket and box store flyers instead!
   Plus, the birds seem to like the coloured pictures.

7. “The market is quite accurately reflecting a harsh but inescapable truth: people do not value the thing we are selling at a price sufficient to cover its costs,” Andrew Coyne, one of Canada’s best-known political commentators, wrote in his own newspaper, the National Post, a Postmedia title.
   OR AN ANY PRICE ! …
   There will be a drop in enrollment at journalism courses because J-degrees are becoming as relevant as ‘fat lesbian women’s studies’ ….

8. Yesterdays program was very good, as usual-
   The Rob Snow Show (yes, I said “snow” Ottawa). Lowell Green’s old show.
   player.cfra.com
   10am-noon (phone-in)
   noon – 2pm estern

9. Your logic is flawed … there is almost no value in your reason of continuing to pay for a pile of recyclables.
   Consider how much that daily crossword costs you annually … and consider all that paper trash that you deal with … just to do a stupid crossword?
   Consider buying a crossword book at the magazine rack … much cheaper way to go …. or go on line where there are millions of crossword puzzles available for free … save some trees and some money and you will not be supporting a rag that opposes everything you value ……

10. Money quote:
    [The U.K. Guardian is] admired for its journalism but is losing money, while the Daily Telegraph makes money in the same market, Crawley said.
    Now, I wonder why that could be.

11. No self-respecting cruciverbalist would never touch those rag-mags nor the simpleton offerings on the web. NY and LA Times are a must.

12. In miami these some green nutcase who is sitting in a bath tub over a killer whale to protest its so called poor treatment This just proves enviroemntalism a mental disorder cuased by a strict diet of nuts and berries an watching crap movies like FREE WILLY and AVATAR while snorting white power up their snozolla

13. ‘fat lesbian women’s studies’
    In journalism school that would be called redundancy.

14. Hmmph. I’ve looked at both the NYT and LAT (which used to be reprinted in the Toronto Sun), and they’re for amateurs.
    The National Post’s cryptic is where you make or break yourself. Mon-Fri, they are from Britain (Daily Telegraph, I believe) while Saturday is from Cox and Rathvon (although severely dumbed down from their old puzzles in the Atlantic and Harpers).

15. “Another element unique to Canada is the presence of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which received about C$1.04 billion in government funding in the fiscal year ended March 2015.
    “I resent the fact that I’m competing with something I’m paying for with my own taxpayer dollars,” Crawley said.”
    Pretty sure most of these lefty journalists have generally supported CBC. I guess now that they have skin in the game it’s a different story.

16. The marketplace has spoken. End.

17. Schadenfreud…the CEO gets it(because he’s supposed to be smart enought to get it)…but does the reporter get it…I bet they’d be the first ones to cry to the heavens if Harper had even hinted at cutting the funding to CBC down to $0 of taxpayer money.

18. “Pretty sure most of these lefty journalists have generally supported CBC”
    I don’t think that Crawley resents the CBC surviving on taxpayer dollars as much as he resents the fact that his outfit isn’t sharing in the largesse. Why didn’t he speak up sooner?

19. I do not imagine any of these presstitutes and entrenched ideologues will figure it out, before bankruptcy that is.
    Public paid for news reporting, advertisers go where the peoples attention is.
    Media peddled opinion and narrative in place of news, public went elsewhere.
    There is still a thriving market for unbiased reporting, questioning of authority and idiots alike.
    But you cannot purchase trust, especially from the people you lied to.
    The only move that might save the paper media is honesty, so they are doomed.
    The national reportage on Chief Teresa Spence showed all canadians how unworthy our old media is,the caterwauling over cataclysmic climate demonstrated their gullibility and their failure to report on “inconvenient to the narrative” stories such as the serial extortionist rapist of Montreal magnify their mendacity.
    There are a wealth of government killing,poltroon popping, real stories waiting to be reported by investigative journalists, what do we get?
    Cardashian Thighs?
    Justine Selfies.
    Transgender drudge?

20. Gee, I wonder why people stopped reading the papers:
    http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/twitter-believes-ted-cruz-is-the-elusive-zodiac-killer-and-he-hasnt-denied-it
    Personally, my Post subscription got cancelled when they ran the “Stephen Harper hasn’t actually said he would resign,” story after the election. The above merely confirms that the Post is nothing but HS these days.

21. If you want a real challenge, try the daily cryptic in the Financial Times (the pink newspaper). Way harder than the cryptics in the Globe or the N. Post – by orders of magnitude.

22. “The marketplace has spoken. End.”
    Yup, pretty much, Kenji. A heck of a lot of their demise is self-inflicted (bias, laziness), but every year an increasingly larger percentage of the population is interested in drivel instead of real news; and a shrinking chunk of the population has the ability to read and comprehend what is going on. So, couple that with the expense of print advertising vs internet alternatives, and it’s no surprise that they are going, gong, gone.

23. I used to be polite now, not so much. a holes a are just that and deserve ridicule and insults.

24. The only time I ever buy a newspaper is when I’m painting doors and there’s no free NOW Magazine at the local box.
    Newspapers are perfect because they are the right size, they slide nicely under the door while a dropsheet doesn’t, and they are quite absorbent.
    Of late I do not often paint doors, but perhaps I should lay in a supply before the newsies go t1ts up.
    May God speed the day.

25. “I resent the fact that I’m competing with something I’m paying for with my own taxpayer dollars,” Crawley said.
    Aww, muffin!!! My favorite quote of 2016 so far!

26. Agreed web, and the cryptic in the London Times had me and another aficionado swapping it back and forth between boats on a sailing trip for a week, by which time we still weren’t entirely sure we’d correctly solved it. But the NP cryptics are a pleasant diversion. And there is something to be said for putting pen to paper especially on a long airline flight.

27. Geez – the NP was once owned by Conrad Black and he was taken to the cleaners and jailed! Why would any self-respecting billionaire want to be involved with a paper like that!

28. That’s an old joke:
    Q. What’s hard and pink every morning?
    A. The Financial Times cryptic.