Blacklock’s eviction: why does it matter to you?
Publishing Blacklock’s news article on the fact that Blacklock’s has been evicted from Ottawa’s parliamentary press gallery seems almost too surreal to believe.
As reported by Blacklock’s itself on December 5th, “Blacklock’s said the eviction, first of its kind in the history of the National Press Building, was a clear reprisal over its continued protests against media subsidies.”
“Eviction followed Gallery president Guillaume St-Pierre’s threat to ‘terminate’ Blacklock’s membership. The eviction letter stated Blacklock’s managing editor Tom Korski was ‘impolite,’ ‘disturbs the journalists around him’ and “streams parliamentary committee hearings on his computer.’”
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