Group prepares bid for National Post

[daleo]

A group said Monday it will soon file a bid for some of Canwest's newspapers, including the National Post, the Montreal Gazette and the Ottawa Citizen.

The group's members include former senator Jerry Grafstein, former Global TV executive and Montreal Star editor Raymond Heard and writer and broadcaster Beryl Wajsman.

The three said in a joint statement they have "received strong financial commitments."

"Each newspaper has a loyal and interested readership which the consortium is confident can be broadened and deepened," they said.

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/01/18/national-post-bid.html
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Part of me would just like to see the thing die, but anything would be an improvement over the current situation. This group hearkens to the Trudeau Liberal era, to a considerable extent.

[Spazito]

1. If they are a group who, as you say, harkens back to the Trudeau

era then I hope they are successful. A part of me is so petty as to savour how it would eat at neocon Black if the National Post went left, lol.

[HeresyLives]

2. Izzy was sure he could make it work too,

but to date it's never made a nickel. And it's the worst possible time to be buying newspapers.