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Article: Pacific Press: The Unauthorized Story of Vancouver's Newspaper Monopoly by Marc Edge.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Textual Studies in Canada
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Vancouver: New Star Books Ltd., 2001. 385 pages.
Born in 1957 as a merger--technically illegal yet authorized by the federal government--Pacific Press became, through the processes of capitalist concentration, a one-hundred-per-cent monopoly owning both of Vancouver's daily newspapers. Stranger still, at least by the logic of capitalism, is that this prima donna among monopolies lost money like a sieve. Edge's book takes us only to 1991, when the Vancouver Sun went to morning publication. (History attests to the rest: in 1996 Southam was consumed by Conrad Black's Hollinger Inc.; in 2000, Hollinger sold to Israel Asper's CanWest Global.)
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Article: Pacific Press buys Brown, Epco.(News)
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January 15, 2007 ;
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...Byline: Bill Bregar Pacific Press Technologies, a hydraulic press maker ... Machine LLC and Epco Machinery LLC. Pacific Press, of Mount Carmel, Ill., announced the news on Jan. 9. Pacific Press makes presses for metal forming and ...
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