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Nova Scotia has three brands that matter, a Toronto media executive once told me: “The Bluenose, Keith’s beer, and the Chronicle Herald.”SaltWire, and the paper I’ve worked at on and off since the early ‘80s, is looking for a banker, a buyer or both.
That same year, W.J. “Ace” Foley, worked his first newspapering shift. Sixty-one years later, he was there for mine. But also, because a newspaper — particularly one older than Confederation — is more than dead trees, ink, words, pictures, and figures on a balance sheet. We wrestle with the perplexing questions and tell you what you need to know even if it hurts to hear it.
They cut out obituaries of loved ones and long-ago stories of high school football exploits that now yellow on the sides of their fridges. Some readers, like me, still love the tactile feel of it in their hands. To spread it out on a breakfast table with our morning coffee. To rattle the pages in irritation when we read something with which we disagree.Others are happy scrolling, or doom-scrolling on their phones.Last week, amidst talk of debts, creditor protection and plans of arrangement, Henry V’s Saint Crispin’s Day speech was making the rounds in my newsroom.
Someone else will judge whether we have truly served our day and generation. All I know is that we do our best for this place and the people in it. For as long as we have been here, that has been so. It is after all, a newspaper’s job to explain where we fit into the great events — whether the terrorist attacks of 9-11 or the global COVID pandemic — just as it was to bear witness to the stories of heartbreak and endurance during the Great Depression.
When a madman impersonating a Mountie drove through the back roads of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people, Chris Lambie, Aaron Beswick and Nicole Munro pulled out their notebooks to tell us something of the nature of evil. Later, Francis Campbell, day after day, sat through the heartbreaking testimony at the Mass Casualty Commission.Racing schooner Bluenose’s epic sailing wins in the early 1920s.The musical triumphs of a barefoot girl from Springhill and a Gaelic-speaking family from Mabou.
When we screw up, we are back the next day, trying as SaltWire's motto declares “to provoke thought and action for the betterment of our communities.”
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