Anyone read the National Post?

[Bassic]

If so, what are your thoughts on Barbara Kay? She's at the center of controversy this week in Québec after an editorial she published called "The Rise of Québecistan". Apparently we're all terrorist loving nazis who only dream of having independence to become a terrorist haven and kill Jews, or some similar bull-crap.

I've never heard of her before, so I was wondering if this is just her normal shit.

[Bassic]

1. Shameless kick

:kick:

[MrPrax]

2. Nope...

It's funny...the NP, like the Globe, is freely distributed in the lobbies of the various office towers here and elsewhere...it never fails to amaze me how 'few' of even elites pick this shit up..even when it's free.

You go to coffee shops and there are all the local rags, the commuter papers...the national post?...nobody wants to read that even if it's the only thing there.

It's a POS and little more than corporate propaganda...so who cares what some fucked up racist bitch has to say about the brothers and sisters in Quebec who are exercising the same rights as the fascists over at the National Post.

Here's the link to the hate piece...

Note it was this outfit that was playing math games with polls suggesting that 'if Quebec wasn't a part of Canada', then English speakers would have favoured joining the Iraq war...

They're warmongering pigs...if you notice...posters here don't really bothering posting up their shit?

Wonder why?

[Bassic]

3. Thanks, I knew they were a right-wing paper

And this is not their first anit-québec/french-canadian piece, but I was wondering about how big of a readership they have. Never read it myself.

[MrPrax]

4. You answered your question...

I am not being flippant...I really do wonder who actually buys the thing. I

Even conservatives I know, will grab the Globe...

"...In the 49 markets where The Globe and the National Post compete, The Globe had 928,400 weekday readers and roughly 1.06 million readers on Saturdays. The Post had 587,400 weekday readers and 540,300 Saturday read"

NewWatch couldn't find the original Globe story...

If you notice, virtually NO CHANGE for the Post in readership of even it's Weekend paper...the eariler part of the story mentions this:

"...The Globe and Mail’s weekly cumulative readership in Toronto was relatively unchanged, increasing by a few thousand to 847,200 readers, while the National Post rose 0.8 per cent to 477,800 readers."

So if they ONLY have 587,400 weekday reads total and 477,800 of those readers are in GTA, what kind of national paper can they claim to be? Nobody reads this even in TO and virtually unread in the rest of the country.

E&P has this teaser of a subscriber story...but it gives you the idea...

"Taking a big asset write down on its money-losing National Post, Canada's biggest media company, CanWest Global Communications Corp., Wednesday reported a loss of C$106 million (U.S.$89.9 million), or 60 Canadian cents per share, during its fourth-quarter ended Aug. 31.The company reported a profit of C$62 million (U.S.$52.6 million), or 35 Canadian cents per share, in the same quarter of 2004. Revenues were up 5% in the quarter to C$702 million (U.S.$596 million).CanWest said its losses include.."

E&P subscriber

I know capitalists tend to like to make money and the NP hasn't made a dime in decades -- so I think people can legitmately ask, 'What exactly is the mission of the National Post when it's not read and it doesn't make money?"

[Canuck55]

7. CanWest and the NP

Our very own Fox/Washington Times.

Last time i picked up the NP was 2 years ago coming back from Australia. After going Brisbane-Sydney-San Fran-Vancouver i had finished my book and magazines, so i picked up the Province, the Globe and the NP to finish off the 50 minute hop to Kelowna so i could get caught up on national junk. It was still as much of a rag as ever.

I can't remember the last time i was in a gas station and saw the 'Check back tomorrow' sign where the NP would sit empty.

[gula]

5. And how about the Israelis rep's letter to the Mtl Gazette re

the pro-Hezbollah march in Montréal. If Harper had any guts this guy would have been sent packing the same day. In the meantime, the good news is that this kind of shenanigans won't help the CRAP party (NEVER TO BE CONFUSED WITH TRUE TORIES) win seats here.

[Bassic]

6. That is quite true.

Though to be fair I don't think they had much of a chance to win a seat in Montreal (or here in Gatineau), anyway. Now if we could jsut get the people in and around Québec-City to wake the fuck up, everything would be fine. :)