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Ego and Ink : The Inside Story of Canada's National Newspaper War
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- Publication Name
- McClelland & Stewart
- ISBN
- 9780771021732
- Book Title
- Ego and Ink : the inside Story of Canada's National Newspaper War
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
- Topic
- Media Studies, Journalism
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Item Weight
- 24.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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In this fast-paced and dramatic book, journalist Chris Cobb serves up a solidly reported business story laced with political intrigue, insider gossip, and inflamed egos. It looked, at first, like it would be a rout. Conrad Black, supreme commander of the upstart National Post, was jubilant: We have shattered this cozy little logrolling, backscratching society of the Toronto media cartel The Post style was quickly dubbed tits and analysis, but the threat was very real. Once the Post was launched, the fight got dirty. For six months a Globe spy faxed them the Post's front page each day before the Globe went to press. The publisher at the Star warned his top people that the Post's owners aren't restrained by the Marquess of Queensberry rules. The struggling Globe drafted the foppish, often brutal Fleet Street editor Richard Addis, who put the paper through an agonizing but ultimately successful readjustment. The short but invigorating war left many casualties in its wake, but it also made newspapers exciting for the first time in this country. And it produced some of the finest, most discussed journalism this country has seen. Based on solid research and interviews with all the major players - editors, publishers, owners, columnists, advertisers - Ego and Ink is enlivened with colourful dialogue, remarkable characters, eye-opening anecdotes, and the quick pace of popular fiction. This irreverent book also offers newspaper readers fascinating insight into how the business works.
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Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
ISBN-10
0771021739
ISBN-13
9780771021732
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2384385
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ego and Ink : the inside Story of Canada's National Newspaper War
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Media Studies, Journalism
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
24.5 Oz
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Reviews
"Brilliant and surprisingly funny.…Ego and Inkis a Canadian adventure story, a business case study, and a thriller peopled with familiar bylines.… It's also a devastating look at the egos that thrive in the newspaper business. … It doesn't take many pages before even the casual reader is intrigued by the nasty, vicious, no-holds-barred fight.… [Cobb] is unsparing but fair in his characterization. This is an amazingly compelling book." Catherine Ford,Calgary Herald "Ego and Inkcovers virtually all of the high and low points of the five-year battle between the two national nmewspapers, and then some.… The dispassionate reporting is often just what is needed considering how outrageously colourful the leading characters are.… Chris Cobb deserves our thanks." John Fraser,Literary review of Canada "Chatty, insider accounts dovetailed with hard-nosed business reporting." Chronicle-Herald(Halifax) "The genesis of Canada's rightist national newspaper is every bit as back-room and old-boys' club as you believed it to be.… Chris Cobb's broadsheet bio,Ego and Ink, gets behind the scenes to deliver a grippingPost mortem. It has all the conspiring, double-dealing, secret meetings and gossiping a newshound can handle.… But beyond simply prurient interest, one of the delightful aspects of Cobb's writing is his ability to satirize the profession by exposing newsroom foibles in all their glory." Press Gallery website "This is a fast, breezy read. Chris Cobb… knows the pressures of daily journalism, the forces acting on newspapers and more important, perhaps, who journalists are and how they think.… And in this story, from Conrad Black to the late Israel (Izzy) Asper, the egos are writ large.… [Cobb's] reflections on the effects theNational Posthad on newspaper people and what they report on, are the best kind of reporting." Nicholas Hirst,Winnipeg Free Press "A dishy, fast-paced account of the feud that fired up Canadian journalism.… The narrative shines when Cobb deals with the bloody-minded culture of newsrooms and their fraught relationships with the ego-driven characters who pay their salaries. His portrait of Richard Addis, the editor brought in from Fleet Street to saveThe Globefrom itself is deliciously bitchy." John Lorinc,Report on Business "Chris Cobb's gossipyEgo and Ink based on interviews with dozens of players provides a compelling post-fight wrap-up of the action, packed with replays of all the choice eye gouges, hair pulls, and vicious kicks to the crotch.… [It] beautifully captures the flavour of the newspaper war and the personalities of its players, from the press barons to the cub reporters.…Ego and Inkis required reading for serious students of Canadian journalism." Quill & Quire "A sensational… tell-all.… It's the story of Conrad Black's ambition to create theNational Postand the ripple effects it caused across the country's mediascape. The book, filled with enough characters to people a Hanna Barbera theme park, comes out at the end of the month, but already the scramble is on in newsrooms for the precious few advance copies." Shinan Govani,National Post "It's the Darwinian struggle of the two 'national' papers, theGlobe, "Brilliant and surprisingly funny.…Ego and Inkis a Canadian adventure story, a business case study, and a thriller peopled with familiar bylines.… It's also a devastating look at the egos that thrive in the newspaper business. … It doesn't take many pages before even the casual reader is intrigued by the nasty, vicious, no-holds-barred fight.… [Cobb] is unsparing but fair in his characterization. This is an amazingly compelling book." Catherine Ford,Calgary Herald "Ego and Inkcovers virtually all of the high and low points of the five-year battle between the two national nmewspapers, and then some.… The dispassionate reporting is often just what is needed considering how outrageously colourful the leading characters are.… Chris Cobb deserves our thanks." John Fraser,Literary review of Canada "Chatty, insider accounts dovetailed with hard-nosed business reporting." Chronicle-Herald(Halifax) "The genesis of Canada's rightist national newspaper is every bit as back-room and old-boys' club as you believed it to be.… Chris Cobb's broadsheet bio,Ego and Ink, gets behind the scenes to deliver a grippingPost mortem. It has all the conspiring, double-dealing, secret meetings and gossiping a newshound can handle.… But beyond simply prurient interest, one of the delightful aspects of Cobb's writing is his ability to satirize the profession by exposing newsroom foibles in all their glory." Press Gallery website "This is a fast, breezy read. Chris Cobb… knows the pressures of daily journalism, the forces acting on newspapers and more important, perhaps, who journalists are and how they think.… And in this story, from Conrad Black to the late Israel (Izzy) Asper, the egos are writ large.… [Cobb's] reflections on the effects theNational Posthad on newspaper people and what they report on, are the best kind of reporting." Nicholas Hirst,Winnipeg Free Press "A dishy, fast-paced account of the feud that fired up Canadian journalism.… The narrative shines when Cobb deals with the bloody-minded culture of newsrooms and their fraught relationships with the ego-driven characters who pay their salaries. His portrait of Richard Addis, the editor brought in from Fleet Street to saveThe Globefrom itself is deliciously bitchy." John Lorinc,Report on Business "Chris Cobb's gossipyEgo and Ink based on interviews with dozens of players provides a compelling post-fight wrap-up of the action, packed with replays of all the choice eye gouges, hair pulls, and vicious kicks to the crotch.… [It] beautifully captures the flavour of the newspaper war and the personalities of its players, from the press barons to the cub reporters.…Ego and Inkis required reading for serious students of Canadian journalism." Quill & Quire "A sensational… tell-all.… It's the story of Conrad Black's ambition to create theNational Postand the ripple effects it caused across the country's mediascape. The book, filled with enough characters to people a Hanna Barbera theme park, comes out at the end of the month, but already the scramble is on in newsrooms for the precious few advance copies." Shinan Govani,National Post "It's the Darwinian struggle of the two ̵
Copyright Date
2004
Dewey Decimal
338.4/707113541
Dewey Edition
22
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