National Post comment editor Andrew Coyne leaves role over election endorsement

"His tweets included his conclusion that 'the Conservatives don't deserve to be re-elected, and the Liberals don't deserve a majority.'

Hah, I knew it. I knew I wasn't imagining things when all year I noticed editorial policy seemed to be swerving to pro-Mulcair.

People got all smug about the fact the Post endorses the Conservatives.

It's Postmedia, not the National Post.

A few days before the election PostMedia drops by and decides what party their army of papers will endorse. The find it to their advantage to endorse the Conservatives.

After that they go back headquarters and the Progressives retake control of Canadian Print media.

Want some more evidence it's the business conglomerate and not the editors or the day to day Frankfurt schooled staff they hire who turn up once every 4 years to set endorsements?

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What a pile of crap. He had to resign because he didn't sync with Post media's pro CPC postion, reflected in all their papers endorsing the Cons. The Vancouver Sun did, I challenge you to find a Post Media paper that didn't - those editors would have to resign as well.

And I said the Libs don't deserve a majority - that means he wants them to get a plurality.

Christ but you sling the dogshit.

Sometimes I almost wish I understood what you were talking about.

You seem pretty confident there's something like reasoning happening between your ears, but damned if I can understand what it is.

OK, so here's my point. Postmedia decides who its army of papers will endorse. They did it last election. They did it this election.

This has nothing to do with the day to day editorial policy of individual papers they hold title to such as the National Post, and the Vancouver Sun.

Endorsements are a business decision from the business conglomerate. In between the 4 years when elections happen the editor hires and fires and writes his editorials. If the paper does as well as expected he keeps his job. If it doesn't, he doesn't.

That's my point. I'm still not sure what yours is.

Something about you don't believe Coyne is NDP or something, I think. Did you read this?



Coyne thought he was a bigger bigshot than Postmedia thought he was, if they thought about him at all. He seems to have been laboring under the misbegotten impression that things would be different when a sooper-dooper big bigshot like himself was editor. Postmedia didn't get the memo, or maybe they did and they didn't bother to read it. They just did what they do. It was four years later and time to fire off their endorsements again.

Colonel Coyne was overdue for a firing.

Anyone who reads The National Post isn't interested in news or journalism.