Media Roundup: Waking Up

Here are a couple of articles covering the Conrad Black trial as Week 4 is prepared for:

1. A subscribers-only feature from the Sunday Independent of Ireland. It's entitled "Kissinger on Black list of witnesses for the defence."

2. Romina Maurino has a report on the next witnesses expected to testify, after Fred Creasey is done with: Darren Sukonick, with Torys LLP; Gulliame Hecketsweiler; William (Bud) Rogers; and, Paul Saunders, Henry Kissinger's lawyer. (The first of the four, all lawyers, will testify by videotape.) Her report also explains why the prosecution in the trial had shifted to charge #10 before they're done with substantiating the ones that are direct consequences of the non-competes, and why David Radler's still being held back by the prosecution. (A list of the charges is here.)

3. The Globe and Mail has a feature report by Paul Waldie that documents the fall of the Chicago newspapers, including the Sun-Times, which relates that they began hitting the skids in the 1980s. He finishes with a report on what the latest turnaround strategy for the Sun-Times is - yeah, you guessed it: job-and-cost cuts. He also mentions that the Sun-Times Group is beginning to treat its suburban dailies in a manner similar to the way Conrad Black treated the smaller Southam dailies when starting up the National Post. (Shades of Black, p. 290.)


Michael Sneed's most recent Sun-Times column has a quote from Barbara Amiel Black's most recent Maclean's column, which discusses her current travails with the media. It's his second note on the Conrad Black trial. (Thanks to FetchHound for digging this up.)


Also: a post at "Point of Law" takes issue with Mark Steyn's description of Mr Creasey as an unreasonable witness, but leaves open the possibility that Mr. Steyn was right about the man. He is a known pro-vindication journalist/blogger.