National Review Online today reprints Mark Steyn's column on Conrad Black from a recent issue of the Western Standard:
The final reckoning on whether or not Conrad Black was a great businessman remains to be seen, but he was a great newspaperman and, in Canada, Australia, and elsewhere, readers are the poorer without his vision and his gusto. Meanwhile, Hollinger's a shell, the future of its two remaining titles is in doubt, and the share price is back down to where it was in January, when Conrad was bounced as chairman. What a great year's work.
Read the whole thing.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 9:58 AM