The Hundred Years war – small dead animals

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Funny thing is the article doesn’t address any potential solutions to the crisis in newspapers. It only describes the sinking ship by saying its sinking. They haven’t entirely got their heads around the problem, which is why they can’t even summon the strength to conjure any solution. So they spit at each other.
I explained the power of the web to some of these guys 20 years ago – they blew me off. Based on this article I’m guessing they’d blow me off again today.

All those wasted birdcage liners. *SIGH*

My addendum is the description of Government Largesse placed on the backs of Albertan’s election of the N.D.P. is easily and correctly placed on the backs of Ontario’s Small Businesses by the election of the Liberal Party.
One must note the over riding images provided of the Conservative Government in the last Federal Election and the Progressive Conservative Party in the most recent Ontario Election were the incorrect Editorials of the National Post and the biased direction of the Editorial Board.
One has to assume in both elections the possibility of obtaining a sinecure on CBC to escape the article’s description of a failing business industry was partly if not completely directed to establish sinecure (s) with CBC.

This is one of those “pray for an asteroid” things where the best outcome is for them both to lose.
When a Canadian national media chain stands up and starts demanding a rollback of taxes and regulations, when they start sticking up for the right of Canadians to defend themselves from violent attack, when they start demanding an answer to the question “Why is nothing made in this country anymore?”…
When that happens, I’ll start giving a sh1t about their continued solvency. May they all enjoy their place in the Great Septic Tank of History. Flush, bye bye!

Papers are dying because people no longer read. Young people are on their ‘devices’ and their interests are usually not political. Politicans love it! As much as they say otherwise the bottom line is verbal diarrhea is easier and better controlled. What philosophical thought actually occurs? If none then how do people value what is important?
IMHO both conservative and progressives deal in this garbage. The CPC is having their leadership convention in May. I told them it would be a waste of my time to attend. The result is pretty predictable and likely not something I can support.

Tim Boyle has the best comment at the National Post:
I’m just wondering how they would feel if in their time of great need the government instead of lending a helping hand instead increased taxes on their business by 20%; levied a special environmental tax to compensate for all the trees the industry chops down; advised that a commission was being established to determine whether they should be subject to a special royalty that would take a cut of all the advertizing dollars they brought in; and finally, issued a ban on any attempt to transport their product on public roadways (because newspapers could fall out the trucks in the rain and the toxic ink leech into public sewers – it really could happen you know). If all these preposterous things were to befall them they might truly understand how the oil and pipeline industries feel these days.

… and while the government gave a wink and a nod to foreign regimes hauling in freighter loads of newspapers on a daily basis with oddly nary a protest.

Not to worry, the leftist owners of Twitter, Facebook, and the unfortunately named Alphabet … will step-in and carry the water for all the failed newspapers and broadcast media. They are already censoring information … filtering and choking information from the right. Favoring leftist viewpoint.
We might actually have jumped from the frying pan … right into the fire

Reminds me of academic squabbles, the smaller the prize the more vicious the infighting.
How can we encourage them to fight harder?
Lying Loser Cagematch.
I have little doubt they will all be drooling for “taxpayer help”.
Same justification as bombardier, “You helped CBC, but we helped you more than them”.
Hopefully this war of words will completely consume these fools until they sink without a trace.
God forbid they discover facial reporting and truth to power in time to attract a paying audience.

I share your concern. However I doubt that Twitter, FB et al are going to be establishing some sort of expensive infrastructure to cleanse their sites of comments or posts that aren’t sufficiently PC. This is what they are TELLING the left to get some kudos. Just like Netflix tries to please it’s rights holders by trumpeting a big crackdown on people who fiddle with their DNS settings to access US Netflix. It is expensive and impractical.
As for the worlds longest article – I keep thinking of a terrarium full of starving crickets that are starting to eat each other.

Interesting that the share structures of Torstar and Bombardier are so alike. A small minority of (family members) controlling the direction of the respective companies, with predictable results. The only difference being no bailout for Torstar. Except for the possibility of Wynne & Co. jumping in.

I still use google, and within the last few months, although I visit SDA, PJM and HA regularly, they are no longer on my favorites page as they were in the fall. I think this is probably an effort by google to minimize the popularity of conservative sites. Am I crazy? I’ve got tinfoil if I need it! Recommendations?

The biter bit. I seem to recall Star types celebrating the PostMedia layoffs last week. Ha-ha!

Well, Wynne and her cadre of corrupt Marxists do need their own media arm, ala PRAVDA/TASS/Mother Corpse.
All collectivist/totalitarians have their propaganda dogs

when post media types were directed to support the cons, is about were I quit reading, they should be neutral, not partisan, I can make up my own mind. Me thinks it’s high time to move to a banana republic, their politicians and news papers will probably be more honest

// As the New Year came, the Torstar shareholder bonfire continued, with the company’s stock price tumbling again to hit an all-time low $2.11 on Jan. 24. //
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As distinct from Postmedia’s 23 cents.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/stocks/chart/?q=PNC.A-T
Postmedia Network Canada Corp has a net profit margin of -30.94%.
Race to the bottom? TorStar $2:15
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/markets/stocks/summary/?q=TS.B-T
Torstar Corp has a net profit margin of -18.05%.

Phantom ‘s got it.
Yes. It is the favoring of socialists that sucks.
If they just reported and kept commentary free of taking sides they may gain or at least float.
Not likely to happen, they were told to do that in “journalist” indoctrination school.
As one can read somewhere “the truth will set yer free”.

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