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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: The Ascendancy of Conrad Black By Barbara Leiterman There's a new player among the global media moguls, and his name is Conrad Black. His company, Hollinger Inc., is now the third largest newspaper chain in the Western world, after Gannett and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (New York Times, 6/24/96), with a combined circulation exceeding 10 million (James Winter, Democracy's Oxygen). Black owns 650 dailies and weeklies around the world, including the Jerusalem Post, the London Daily Telegraph, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began this media empire by buying up small papers in his native Canada. He now controls 42 percent of Canada's daily circulation (Maclean's, 7/8/96), and most of the large papers outside of Toronto (Toronto Star, 6/28/96). According to David Robinson, research director at the Council of Canadians, these assets include 70 percent of Ontario's newspapers, almost every paper in British Columbia, and all the papers in Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan. Black's ascendancy within Canada's media elite is a recent one, compared with the old family press empires of the Irvings, Thomsons and Desmaraises, and it has been won through a wave of newspaper acquisitions in the past year, many bought from Ken Thomson (owner of Canada's national newspaper, the Globe & Mail). From Stingy to Ruthless To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1369 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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