Title Goes Here (Maybe)

This morning I was listening to CBC, and I happened to overhear that Irving bought out Here (a free weekly paper) sometime last year.  Later tonight, in a startling coincidence, Greg went to look up powertool prices, and entered www.kents.ca as the address — which he then promptly forwarded to me.  (I suggest following it for a surprise.)

Anyways, courtesy of IrvingSucks.com (who got it from a Nov. 2003 article in The Dominion Paper), I present: Freedom of the Press is for Those Who Own One: The Irving Media Monopoly in New Brunswick.  At the very least, it's a source of some interesting facts.  For example:  As of 2003, Irving owned all 3 English-language daily papers in NB (4 if you count the provincial and Saint John-specific versions of The Telegraph Journal), 9 subscription weeklies, and 6 free weeklies.  Yeesh….