IT’S NO NEWS THAT THE FIRST FEW years of the 1990s haven’t been good for the newspaper industry: papers are shrinking, massive layoffs are common, and real innovation is rare. That’s why the appointment last summer of Neil Reynolds as editor of New Brunswick’s sister papers the Saint John Telegraph Journal and the Evening Times… Continue reading Brave New Brunswick
Category: Spring 1994
Paper Chase
IT’S SUNDAY MORNING AND, AS USUAL, THERE’S A LINEUP FOR John’s Place, a diner-style restaurant in downtown Victoria. Just inside the door is a box of free Monday Magazines…and most patrons pick one up as they go in. After they get a booth, they order brunch and read the alternative weekly. A couple clad in… Continue reading Paper Chase
More Than Meets the I
LAST OCTOBER, I-AND PLEASE PARDON the personal pronoun-published a book about what it feels like to be a man living in an age when feminism is ascendant. Three-quarters of the book consists of encounters with various men. The rest of the time I play golf, drink, have lustful thoughts about my wife and women other… Continue reading More Than Meets the I
Guild by Association
WILL GREED KILL NEWSPAPERS? asked the 24-point headline on the ad in last spring’s Ryerson Review. It begged the answer that the ad, sponsored by the Southern Ontario Newspaper Guild, wanted, and then answered itself. According to the guild, the blame for the so-called dwindling credibility of newspapers must be placed on the desk of… Continue reading Guild by Association
The Scud Stud has Come Home
IT WAS EARLY IN THE GULF WAR THAT ARTHUR KENT walked onto a rooftop in Dhahran,–and into a real-life drama whose latest episode was played out in a New York lawyer’s office in the middle of last month. As Scud missiles fell on the city and air raid sirens shrieked, Kent, gas mask in hand,… Continue reading The Scud Stud has Come Home