So did thoughtful editors at Postmedia’s daily newspapers across Canada consider the needs of their communities and then unanimously decide to endorse the Conservatives in election editorials?
Or did CEO Paul Godfrey, a Conservative supporter, issue an edict demanding the corporation’s 43 daily newspapers urge their readers to re-elect Stephen Harper?
It matters. And the corporation’s newspapers, quick to demand transparency from other institutions, have fallen eerily silent about their endorsement editorials.
The only confirmation of a head office command came from Edmonton Journal columnist Paula Simons after that newspaper’s Conservative endorsement.
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