MJ Milloy

is providing good coverage of a recent hoo-haw in the newsrooms of Canada. It seems that the new owners of the Southam family of newspapers, the Asper family, has mandated that several editorials a week will appear in each of a dozen papers - editorials written at head office. More disturbingly, the local editors have been spiking editorials or columns that take a different position. Must we now grudgingly admit that at least Tubby Black had a marginal respect for “the newspaper” as an institution?