The Canadian Media Turn Right

Antonia Zerbesias claims the National Post is wooing Barbara Amiel, Linda Frum, Heather Mallick, Mark Steyn, and possibly Conrad Black. They just signed Warren Kinsella.

This is exciting. It looks as though the Post is about to make a serious bid to become the newspaper of record. Meantime, Maclean’s has swerved right under Whyte, and the Western Standard is making a whole lot of waves. And the Globe endorsed the Conservatives in the election!

So much for the left-wing near-monopoly we’ve had in the Canadian media for some years.

I think a lot of people with money have looked over the border at the success of Fox News, and see a chance to make a profit. And I think they are right. Neo-conservatism is the wave of the foreseeable future.

It is a sad thought, though, that those who saw this coming, and who bore the banner in the most difficult times, are not necessarily the ones who seem most likely to profit from the turnaround they largely engineered. I think of Ted Byfield and the Byfield family, and of Lord Black.