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#Canada: The Globe & Mail chooses sides heavy handedly. Conrad Black, National Post

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 22 March 2024

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#Canada: The Globe & Mail chooses sides heavy handedly. Conrad Black, National Post
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/globe-and-mail-fails-on-trump

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This is

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this is CBS, I on the world, I'm John Bachelor.

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I welcome Conrad Black, Lord Black,

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is going to help me understand the editorial policy of a very serious newspaper,

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The Globe and Mail of Toronto of Canada.

0:19.0

Conrad, your most recent column at the National Post

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identifies the Globe and Mail of having chosen sides in the

0:25.9

contest between President Biden and former President Trump. Is this something

0:30.5

they've done before? Did they choose sides between Eisenhower and

0:33.5

Stevenson? That sort of thing. Good evening to you. Yeah, good evening to you, Sean.

0:37.8

I think they have at times shown a preference but I go back for example having lived intermittently

0:49.2

in Toronto for a great many years and the global mail does circulate elsewhere in the country.

0:55.0

You know, I've been familiar with it for one time and it did, for example, endorse President Lyndon Johnson of her Barry Goldwater.

1:05.0

A lot of foreigners were concerned about Goldwater.

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And I think it, I have a it it was sort of ambivalent between Reagan and

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Carter but and it ended it it was it was very measured between Nixon and Kennedy. I believe it was all it

1:27.2

also said that both President Eisenhower and Governor Stevenson were admirable men capable of holding the office.

1:35.0

So they don't feel compelled to select a favored candidate, but they do it occasionally.

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But I have never known them to do as they did in this occasion

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eat praise on one candidate and then integrate the other candidate in an extremely lopsided way.

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I mean, I understand you can make the case, but there are some reasons to have some concern about

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about

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