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Article: Raise the bar please Calgary Herald. (Editorial).(coverage of aboriginal issues)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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It was a week that should have been a celebration of all that is good, worthy and important about journalism.
The 30th anniversary of the Watergate break-in took us all back to the heady days of Woodward, Burnstein, Bradlee and the courageous baffle by the Washington Post to hold a power-mad president accountable for his illegal and undemocratic actions.
Celebrations of those days were marked in many corners. But alas, it was during that week that the Ottawa Citizen's Russell Mills, the longest serving publisher in the Southam newspaper chain, was fired by the corporate owners at CanWest Global.
His crime? Printing an editorial that criticized ...