Editorial endorsements: Beyond worthless? But still frightening?
From the ‘not good enough for my bird to shit on’ department. This is great example of how mainstream media has ‘jumped the shark’ and is no longer useful to society at large.
Today, the Edmonton Journal – a subsidiary of Postmedia Network, which is itself a subsidiary of a US private equity firm – endorsed Stephen Harper.
Over the last 10 years, I’d be willing to bet that Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to Postmedia for ‘advertising’. Of course, we’ll probably know an exact number for sure.
Given the inability to be objective, the inherent conflict of interest and the potential breach of Canadian election laws (remember, we’re not allowed to be influenced by foreigners), I’d suggest that the Edmonton Journal and all other rags that are part of the Postmedia chain go stuff themselves.
For the record, here’s a full list of other mass media publications owned by Postmedia that shouldn’t be trusted with their ‘opinion’ and that you should ignore:
Publishing
Newspapers
National
Broadsheet Dailies
- Calgary Herald
- Edmonton Journal
- Montreal Gazette
- Ottawa Citizen
- Regina Leader-Post
- The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)
- The Vancouver Sun (N.B.: not related to the tabloid Sun newspapers also owned by Postmedia)
- The Windsor Star
Tabloid Dailies
Free Dailies
Community Newspapers
Postmedia owns newspapers that serve smaller communities across Canada, including:
- Barrie Examiner (broadsheet)
- Belleville Intelligencer (broadsheet)
- Brantford Expositor (broadsheet)
- Bradford Times (tabloid)
- Brockville Recorder and Times (broadsheet)
- Camrose Canadian (tabloid)
- Chatham This Week (tabloid)
- Clinton News-Record (tabloid)
- Cochrane Times-Post (tabloid)
- Cornwall Standard Freeholder (broadsheet)
- Drayton Valley Western Review (tabloid)
- Edson Leader (tabloid)
- Elliot Lake Standard (tabloid)
- Fort McMurray Today (tabloid)
- Fort Saskatchewan Record (tabloid)
- Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune (tabloid)
- Hinton Parklander (tabloid)
- Kenora Daily Miner and News (broadsheet)
- Kincardine News (tabloid)
- Kingston Whig-Standard (broadsheet)
- Kingston This Week (tabloid)
- Lakeshore Advance (Grand Bend; tabloid)
- Lloydminster Meridian Booster (tabloid)
- Mid-North Monitor (Espanola; tabloid)
- Niagara Falls Review (broadsheet)
- North Bay Nugget (broadsheet)
- Owen Sound Sun Times (broadsheet)
- Pembroke Daily Observer (broadsheet)
- Peterborough Examiner (broadsheet)
- Pincher Creek Echo (tabloid)
- St. Catharines Standard (broadsheet)
- St. Thomas Times-Journal (tabloid)
- Stratford Beacon Herald (broadsheet)
- Sudbury Star (broadsheet)
- Timmins Daily Press (broadsheet)
- Whitecourt Star (tabloid)
- Woodstock Sentinel-Review (broadsheet)
Magazines
Online
- Canada.com
- celebrating.com
- connecting.com
- driving.ca
- househunting.ca
- remembering.ca
- shoplocal.ca
- SwarmJam.com
- Infomart.com