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10. the Canadian media['s]... predilection for behaving like a rampaging industrial union while pretending absurdly to be a learned profession.
--Conrad Black, A Life in Progress (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1993), p.74 |
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9. Canadian media [are] irresponsible, narcissistic, self-righteously biased, unqualified to exercise the power they have, over-indulged... by owners afraid to offer any ethical direction
--Conrad Black, The Financial Post, (letters), July 18, 1989. |
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8. the 'swarming, grunting jackals of investigative journalism'
--Conrad Black, A Life in Progress (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1993), p.399 |
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7. journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism
--Conrad Black, F. David Radler, and Peter G. White, 'A Brief to the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media from the Sherbrooke Record, the voice of the Eastern Townships,' November 7, 1969, p.10. |
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6. the Toronto press fell into a feeding frenzy... bullied by rabid journalists cock-a-hoop with blood lust.
--Conrad Black, A Life in Progress (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1993), p.396 |
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5. Like spiteful and rebellious children after placing a tack on the headmistress's vacant chair, our leading journalists leapt to their feet shouting and clapping...
--Conrad Black, The Financial Post, May 19, 1988. |
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4. the alarmist claims of spokesmen for organized labour who by their feather-bedding greed and irresponsibility have done more than any other group or interest to imperil the newspaper industry...
--Conrad Black, The Globe and Mail, May 8, 1996. |
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3. I'm getting a little tired of wrestling with the entire Canadian left-wing media myself while thousands of publicity-shy well-wishers offer to hold my coat.
--Conrad Black, The Financial Post, (letters), July 18, 1989. |
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2. the malaise of our free press [is] the irresponsible power of journalists, unrestrained by publishers
--Conrad Black, The Financial Post, May 19, 1988. |
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1. one of the greatest myths of the industry: that journalists are essential to producing a newspaper.
--Conrad Black, A Life in Progress (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1993), p.405 |
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If you can find one journalist of ours who is frustrated by his ultimate proprietor, I would like to meet him, or her.
--Conrad Black, Interviewed on CBC Newsworld's Pamela Wallin Live, Sep 03, 1998 |
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