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Liberty Belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 01:59 AM
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Anybody know about Black Press of Canada? Word is they are trying to buy San Diego's Union Tribune.
A list of newspapers that they own is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Press

The owner is David Black. More here: http://voiceofsandiego.org/cafesandiego/

The Union-Tribune is notoriously right-wing conservative; the publisher once donated a million bucks to put elephant fireworks in the sky during the GOP convention here and they are extremely biased in their political coverage.

I'd be very interested to know if the prospective new owner is liberal, conservative, or simply a straight-up journalist with no perceivable bias.

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HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 02:09 AM
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1. Never heard of either of them,
and I'm Canadian. As a 'western' concern, they may well be very conservative.

Torstar owns 20% though, and they are mandated by their original owner to be liberal. They currently run The Star, which is the largest newspaper in Canada.

Doesn't guarantee David Black however, but if he is already facing junk bond status, it may not be a problem.
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 03:06 AM
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2. Try posting this in the Canada forum.
You'll probably get the best answers there. Not to mention, your post won't drop so quickly.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=190
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