Friday, April 6, 2007

Comment on Blatchford

The afore-posted Toronto Life blog focusing on the Conrad Black trial
has an interesting topping its page today. It
concerns The Globe and Mail's coverage through the always- controversial Christie Blatchford.

He then asked me if I’d read Christie’s column. I said I hadn’t. He then read me the last line of the column. Speaking of Conrad Black, Blatchford asks (rhetorically, one suspects), “Is it a criminal offence to be so visibly entitled?” The satirist then suggested that I read the rest of the column and imagine that instead of a description of corporate greed,Blatchford had appended her question to an article about a guy who walks into a Mac’s, points a loaded gun at the owner, spews abuse at him, then steals his money. (Which also happens to be the analogy trotted out by the prosecution in its opening remarks.)

I'm not going to hunt for Blatchford's article as The Globe locks such content behind a paywall.

Must find ink-on-paper version later in library... if such things still
exist when I get around to properly researching this thing.

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