SDA Exclusive. The two will be going to a province wide newspaper on first of January, 2017.
Per my source – CBC had the story of eight jobs disappearing in the Leader Post, but the word is that Les McPherson, Cam Fuller and some other senior SP people are being bought out and will be done.
Developing…
Is it too much to ask that “senior” Murray Mandryk is bought out and done as well? It seems like they have gotten rid of the 2 best writers in the Star Phoenix.
LOL the irony of probably the biggest blog in SK breaking a story of the start of the death spiral of a SK main stream news outlet 🙂
Mandryk stays.
Like the last drop of poison in the goblet.
When will the Winnipeg Leftist Press follow suit?
FIRE THEM ALL!
Don’t know why this comes to mind when I think of the MSM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6VTci1Bunk
The Winnipeg Free Press is to journalism, what CNN is to reporting.
p.s. as a first time posting here, what is this retarded captcha thing?
“what is this retarded captcha thing?”
It keeps some of the trolls away,AND all the damn bots!! :):)
Well I was going to be cancelling my LP subscription when it came time for renewal anyway. Really tired of the mostly left wing bias from the likes of Mandryk, Bruce Anderson and Greg Fingas. In a newspaper I’d like the NEWS please. There are many other places I can go if I want OPINION.
I’m not shedding any tears. I hate to see anyone lose a job but the MSM has done this to themselves. Trust in the mainstream news whether print or television is at an all time low right now and it’s easy to see why.
WH
I only subscribe to the Ottawa Citizen for the comics & crossword puzzles and because I need the paper to put the used kitty litter in the green (recycling) bin.
Haven’t read them for a long time. But, I noticed a pro-NDP husband and wife team, I assume, with the last names Graney have been assigned to the Redmonton Sun. Emma Graney’s google search provided quite a few links to Leader Post articles.
She, in particular, seems to have an inside track on the Alberta NDP propaganda pipeline — the only pipeline likely to be approved under their regime.
From the CBC article, the U of Regina professor declares – “It’s a threat to democratic life in Canada,” she said. “When you have a company like this in charge of the news we rely on to hold our governments to account, newspapers have a huge role in society.”
Sure, but what about media group think dear professor? That’s also a threat to democracy.
Any paper that paid Johnston and Greg Fingus the princely sum of $20 an article for its comic content and their intellect were wasting their money. What, they were paid more? No wonder they are amalgamating then closing. Management, look in the mirror to see what went wrong. You had a capitalistic newspaper and ran it like a union rag in a province that is anti union.
Opps! Of course I meant Bruce Johnstone. Just sad there is still a drop of poison in the Goblet!
A left wing agenda from a newspaper makes it unreadable but a left wing perspective on business makes the paper fit only for the fire pit or lining the bird cage. Johnston’s constant harping on the merits of the CWB were comical.
Patricia Elliott might be a little off base here. I thought it was the job of the official
opposition to hold the Government to account, not Murray Mandryk.
Altruism aside, the media, like every other business venture, requires customers. In order to attain such, one must find out what the target market wants and then provide said product.
Where these lame brains have missed the boat is by assuming what “they” want is what “we” want. Or better yet, what they want is what we should have.
The clock is ticking for their entire self imposed demise.
Don’t worry, the CBC will give ’em the best paying jobs they’ve ever had.
I used to get the Ottawa Citizen and remember thinking it was a decent paper. That is deent compared to the Toronto Star which I would occasionally read before I moved from there to Ottawa. Of course that was before the invention of the internet.
“Mandryk stays.”
Why? Why would any outfit keep the likes of this bitter, disillusioned old socialist sore loser? Les McPherson, on the other hand, was a breath of fresh air who was never cowed by political correctness. His articles back in the day of smoking ban implementations were a priceless combination of humor and common sense. Mandryk’s inane ramblings are acceptable for firing up the troops at an NDP rally but do absolutely nothing to inform or entertain rational thinking readers. If he had been cut loose, as he should have been, he could have spent his free time polishing his Tommy Douglas and Allan Blakeney statues and dreaming of the good old days of potash nationalization, potato growing crown corporations and government owned telephones.
Yes, I hope Les McPherson’s buyout pays him enough for him to find another outlet for his writing. When I had a girlfriend who worked with his wife I met him socially a couple of times. In person he is as funny as his writing and a nice fellow.
That is too bad.
What biffjr said. Les McPherson was a pleasure to read, Mandryk’s article were nothing but an old socialist loser’s rants.
That’s a good summary of the Mandreck’s oeuvre. Have you ever noticed that Saskatchewan papers and the Saskatchewan CBC radio are the only outlets that bother to publish or record his opinion?
He gives new meaning to the word ‘provincial’.
The Leader Post was never intended as a leftist paper. Founded in 1883 by Nicolas Flood Davin, a federal Conservative MP for Assiniboia West, , it was once the bastion of free speech. Davin was the guy who disguised himself as a Catholic priest, spoke with a French Canadian accent, sneaked into the NWMP compound and interviewed Louis Riel as he awaited hanging. As for the Star-Phoenix, I read it for a couple of years when I lived in Saskatoon, it was OK back then. (1988-89)
My fondest memories of LP go back during the Colin Thatcher Trial. They were the only paper that provided a day by day account of what was really happening. A couple of years later, I found myself in the same courthouse (S’toon) working out the final details of my divorce. Those memories weren’t so great.
There’s a time and place for everything. Someday, some young journalist will come across a memory stick that will have a couple of year’s SDA packed into it, and assuming they can find a place to plug it in, he or she will say, ”WTF was wrong with those people??”
It’s the way of the world.
http://www.leaderpost.com/lp130/history/past+your+stories+celebrating+years/8267332/story.html
Newspapers have to reflect their audience. The hard core ndp’r is just below the surface in Saskatchewan. Half the jobs in the province are civil service unionistas.
There are no right wing publications in Canada. They can’t survive. Only on blogs do any alternate opinions exit. It’s over for the newspaper industry.
Cam Fuller is not leaving The StarPhoenix. If you can’t find a second person to confirm your unnamed source, then you shouldn’t publish. But these are just fuddy-duddy rules that newspaper reporters have to follow.