Is Influence Illusionary? The Effects of Ownership on Political Coverage In Hollinger and CanWest Owned Newspapers
Bibliographic record
Abstract
CanWest is owned by the Asper family who has an amicable history with the Liberals, dating back to the years when the late family patriarch Israel Asper was leader of the Manitoba Liberals. Hollinger’s major shareholder at the time of sale was the conservative stalwart Conrad Black. This change in ownership had the potential to adversely affect Canada’s media landscape as not only had ownership changed hands but the partisanship of the owners as well. Under Black’s proprietorship many opponents, including Jean Chrétien, claimed that the National Post proliferated an ideology-driven view. The Post’s emphasis on conservative interests afforded it the reputation as the “ … catalyst and cheerleader for the emergence of the Canadian Alliance Party, an intervention into national life that is almost unprecedented for a newspaper in the post-war era.”1 Black was accused of using his newspaper chain for the promotion of his political and financial interests- having neither regard for the informational needs of his readers, nor for quality, objective journalism. Black’s critics were abundant and as vitriolic in their rants as Black was ruthless in his corporate downsizing. Former employee Claude Gravel claimed his resignation
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".