National Post alumnus Paul “Bad Boy” Wells has some intriguing, almost conservative, thoughts:

…Today’s competitive landscape leaves room for a paper that would be less frantic than its competitors, especially the poor, lost Globe. Its front page would try less desperately to be liked by everyone. Such a paper would realize a newspaper isn’t going to look like the internet and shouldn’t try — just as William Thorsell realized in 1990, when he edited the Globe, that newspapers’ attempts to look like television were simply making them look needy. It would cover news according to its own sense of what matters, not its fears about what the reader doesn’t have time for. Those are broad criteria but somewhere within them is a paper, different from today’s Post, that would also be distinct from the rest.

As for “Canada’s National…”:

The Canadian Forces’ future, or, why the Globe and Mail is not a newspaper

No sink or swim, or, the Starification of the Globe

Mark
Ottawa