Press Baron Who Received Unauthorized Payments Will Quit

mumon

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Tue Nov-18-03 04:59 PM
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Press Baron Who Received Unauthorized Payments Will Quit

Edited on Tue Nov-18-03 05:40 PM by Kanzeon

(Hope this isn't a dupe, but this guy is the Rupert Murdoch of Canada- he's a shoe in for a "Conservative Idiots" slot!)

Edit: link: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/18/business/media/18BLAC.html

Conrad M. Black, the Canadian press baron who sought to build a global collection of newspapers with a conservative bent, is quitting as chief executive and putting the company up for sale after an internal investigation disclosed yesterday that he and his partners had received $15.6 million in unauthorized payments.

A sale of the company, Hollinger International, either as a whole or in parts would most likely bring to an end the big-media ambitions of Lord Black. A Canadian-born British lord, he started his empire with a pair of weekly newspapers in Quebec and expanded it to span half the globe. It now includes The Chicago Sun-Times, The Daily Telegraph in London, The Jerusalem Post and a stake in The New York Sun

NOW can we get Rupert Murdoch on similar charges??? Pretty please?

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Screaming Lord Byron

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Tue Nov-18-03 05:00 PM
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1. We've had a couple of Black threads, but who cares. He deserves it.

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Maple

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Tue Nov-18-03 05:01 PM
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2. He is NOT

Canadian, so stop saying that! :D

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Screaming Lord Byron

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Tue Nov-18-03 05:02 PM
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3. Yeah how about Former Canadian Psycho Traitor?

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Maple

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Tue Nov-18-03 05:03 PM
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4. Better....

but stress the 'former' Canadian part. ;-)

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Screaming Lord Byron

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Tue Nov-18-03 05:04 PM
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5. Or Lord Disowned His Own Country For Meaningless Archaic Title?

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Maple

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Tue Nov-18-03 05:06 PM
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6. After the mess

he created with International Harvester, Loblaws and the National Post...I don't care what archaic title he went for...as long as he left!

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mumon

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Tue Nov-18-03 05:25 PM
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7. That reminds me why I detest Conrad Black...

Whenever I used to go to Canada, the hotels ALWAYS had the Globe and Mail- a great, great paper- better than most US papers by far, and far more fair and balanced then all of them.

But last time, I was treated to the "National Post," a knock-off Wall Street Journal, aping their style down to those little dotty-pictures, and stupid conservative ideas.

Can't believe anyone actually buys that crap up there- might as well go with the real thing (and avoid the WSJ's editorial pages).

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glarius

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Tue Nov-18-03 05:32 PM
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8. It couldn't happen to a more deserving piece of shit!

He's such a phony with that affected upper class accent he has adopted......I doubt if we'll be getting any more lectures from him on how Canadians should behave in the world....:puke:

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