National Post stops Monday editions in summer

[jdobbin]

http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servle...y/Business/home

The National Post will not publish a Monday edition this summer, a move designed to save costs at the paper while its parent company CanWest Global Communications Corp. [CGS-T] looks for ways to trim expenses amid a cash crunch.

Staff at the 10-year-old newspaper were told Wednesday that the Monday edition would be suspended for July and August, affecting nine print runs in total. The company said Monday is the lowest day for readership during the summer and the move would save on ink, paper and distribution costs.

First delivery end in some provinces and now the paper itself won't publish on some days.

Can the end of the National Post be far behind?

[Radsickle]

Can the end of the National Post be far behind?

Hopefully not. National Post has sucked from day one.

[bill_barilko]

First delivery end in some provinces and now the paper itself won't publish on some days.

Can the end of the National Post be far behind?

Let's hope a few trees as possible have to die in order to facilitate the garbage that disgusting rag touts.

[M.Dancer]

The Post has been the best think to happen to the Globe and Mail since the invention of the Offset press..something to do with be nominated numerous times and winning 8 National Newspaper awards in it's lifespan...( not including 13 Magazine awards for FP magazine 8 for National Post Magazine)

I am not a fan of the paper myself but I think the criticism here so far have little to do with the overall quality of what is one of Canada's best newspapers.

[Muddy]

The Post has been the best think to happen to the Globe and Mail since the invention of the Offset press..something to do with be nominated numerous times and winning 8 National Newspaper awards in it's lifespan...( not including 13 Magazine awards for FP magazine 8 for National Post Magazine)

I am not a fan of the paper myself but I think the criticism here so far have little to do with the overall quality of what is one of Canada's best newspapers.

If we lose the post we lose our last touch with reality in this country!

[BubberMiley]

National Post has sucked from day one.

That's not true. While it was always a right-wing paper, in the early days when Conrad Black was publisher, it was probably the best paper Canada ever had. Its design was slick and extremely readable, it had some of the best writers in the country working for it, it had tons to read, and it even threw in an excellent final run of Saturday Night magazine in its Saturday paper. I knew then it was too good to last. Sadly, it was.

I haven't bothered to read it much in the past few years, since it became a shadow of its former self.

[Radsickle]

It was slick because it was young. It didn't have a `character' yet and was able to become what the researchers said was desirable. It still sucked. It was a political tool for Conrad Black-like characters; right-wing corporate types. It had no journalistic integrity in its first years; it was almost entirely partisan. Some journalists went on to have respectable careers but I bet they don't brag about once being part of the National (piss) Post.

Good riddance.

Next someone will try to defend the Toronto Sun....

Edited May 1, 2009 by Radsickle

[BubberMiley]

Part of what I liked about it is that I usually disagreed with the columnists. I prefer reading writers with whom I largely disagree because its boring getting preached to in the choir. The problem, however, is right-wing media too often assumes its audience are complete simpletons, so it can be frustrating to listen to. FoxNews even thinks its audience gets off on murdered young women.

But the National Post was far more intelligent. Even if it was a mouthpiece for Conrad Black, who was indeed a bastard.

[Radsickle]

Part of what I liked about it is that I usually disagreed with the columnists. I prefer reading writers with whom I largely disagree because its boring getting preached to in the choir. The problem, however, is right-wing media too often assumes its audience are complete simpletons, so it can be frustrating to listen to. FoxNews even thinks its audience gets off on murdered young women.

But the National Post was far more intelligent. Even if it was a mouthpiece for Conrad Black, who was indeed a bastard.

Dude, I totally repect your reasons for reading that rag now. I also would study it to learn the antithesis. It did serve a balancing purpose, I suppose. But maybe that was a step backwards and Canadian journalists had already won many awards without having to sell a `brand' of newspaper.

[sharkman]

That's not true. While it was always a right-wing paper, in the early days when Conrad Black was publisher, it was probably the best paper Canada ever had. Its design was slick and extremely readable, it had some of the best writers in the country working for it, it had tons to read, and it even threw in an excellent final run of Saturday Night magazine in its Saturday paper. I knew then it was too good to last. Sadly, it was.

I haven't bothered to read it much in the past few years, since it became a shadow of its former self.

Wow, I can't believe I agree with you on something(), but in it's early days it was quite good. I too really thought they had a great stable of writers and subscribed to it for years. But after it got sold, they moved it to the middle and several of their really great writers left, and it just was not the same paper.

I think it got sold a second time, but unlike you, I bought it for its partisan content, it being the only one of its kind in Canada. Moving to the center removed its uniqueness and losing those great writers made it a shell of its former self. In my view it was a big mistake to move to the center. No one on the left was going to read the thing no matter what they did, so trying to appeal to a broader audience only made those on the right disenchanted. I cancelled the paper when they started printing Christopher Hitchens pieces.

In Canada there are very view right of center newspapers. So one does not have to search out liberal bias, slants and perspective. Finding right of center perspective got harder when they changed their format, and if they fold I will not be surprised, and it would serve them right.

Edited May 1, 2009 by sharkman

[jdobbin]

Part of what I liked about it is that I usually disagreed with the columnists.

It was all columnists in its early days. Lots of of interesting stuff but it lacked correspondents. It favoured sending reporters to different places rather than having bureaus where reports were built based on experience and understanding certain regions in respect to our own.

The Post brought colour, literal colour to the paper. It forced black and white Globe to add more colour to their pages. It forced the Globe to be a better paper all round.

The problem, however, is right-wing media too often assumes its audience are complete simpletons, so it can be frustrating to listen to.

It was an unrelenting attack against Liberals for some of the columnists but where it was at its most boring was the editorial pages.

I think their magazine stuff was top notch for a while there. Lots of extras in the paper but I could see it was a lot of money being poured in and wondered even then if it was sustainable.

But the National Post was far more intelligent. Even if it was a mouthpiece for Conrad Black, who was indeed a bastard.

It was a grand experiment that was halted by costs and by a limited political perspective. The paper needed more context to survive and prosper.