I really hope the Globe isn't really so stupid as to lose one of its greatest assets, someone with a brain and style, The Salutin. I've always wished he wrote two columns a week. And I know others who judge him the reason for buying the Friday Globe. If this news is true, it's a pity for Salutin, but it's a terrible condemnation of someone or other's judgment at the Globe, and puts a real damper on their relaunch. Seems more like a backlaunch, or a backflip, now, and not sure how a big old chap like the Globe is going to fare, trying a backflip... There is a report he's going to The Star which makes sense and I hope it's true and they feature his ugly mug on the front page, staring down Front Street, but the Star is not a national paper, yet...I've thought for a while that The Star should do as the Guardian did, back in the day, and keep a "Manchester" edition, but also have a national edition, since their national reporting has become very good, and some time back they decided to load up with good national columnists, Walkom, HÉBERT, Gwyn, Travers, and on and on. I know it can be bought in most major cities, but it's not widely available, and maybe it doesn't make sense, commercially, I couldn't say, but Canada could really use The Star as a proper national paper (note, like the transition from Manchester Guardian to plain Grauniad, most refer to it as simply The Star, now).
There is apparently a bunch of people emailing the Globe, the Editor in Chief, to be precise, to protest this, and ask they keep Salutin. If this is all true, maybe both parties are happy to be quits. But, in solidarity, it still seems the decent thing to do: jstackhouse@globeandmail.com
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