Article: Pacific Press: The Unauthorized Story of Vancouver's Newspaper Monopoly by Marc Edge.(Book Review)

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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