Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 16, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 Winnipeg free january win Toronto up the Canadian the country cooperative news wire is taking Over its Only United press Cana Sale of up to Cythe logos which identify stories by the Agen cies in newspapers across the coun announced yesterday by Douglas president of to Ronto Sun publishing Parent company of and up president Keith by Mutual no financial terms were disclosed in the which is effective Creighton said up clients will receive news service through up and the services employees will be offered jobs either by the Sun or among a number of unsettled de the Deal also raised questions about How the end of a competitive relationship Between the two Agen cies would affect coverage and distribution of news in at the time of the Money los ing up provided news service to 90 newspaper and broadcast clients and had 54 employees in Toronto and at bureaus in major up is cooperatively owned by its 102 member newspapers and also serves More than 600 television and cab let outlets through its broadcast broadcast news another press serves the Mac leans Maga Zine and other combining the two wire services Means that up is taking on an enormous Kincaid said in a statement to the newspapers and broadcasters of Canada have expressed deep Confidence in the ability of the Ca nation pladian press to meet their information requirements and we have a responsibility to ensure that the Confidence is Root Tom who headed a Federal Royal commission on the newspaper Industry in said the Deal int necessarily a bad thing if it leads to expansion and improvement of National and International news cover age by i would Hope there would be a prompt statement from up that what they Are going to do is increase their total substantially and not take the Opportunity to exercise More monopoly Kent said from his Home in but since up is a cooperative that shares information with the clients that own the Issue of direct com Peti Titan with the Agency int a major said Kents report four years ago called for Tough government action to pre vent More concentration of newspaper ownership and said up did not get enough funding from its newspaper owners for adequate coverage of National or International we have to face the fact that it up has never been very effective Kents sentiments were shared by Robert a Saint broadcaster who was president of broadcast news until a bitter part ing Over the Issue of broadcaster control of the Lockhart said he regrets the loss of a competitive news unit of any but the realities of the Market place Are that we have regretfully proven that Canada cannot support two wire service i dont think there is any fear of a monopoly because Canadian press is owned by individual newspaper Lockhart its not a monopoly in the real Walter a author and investigative reporter who is director of the journalism pro Gram at Kings College in was More every time another unit of journalism goes Down in this i feel people walking on my Stewart obviously up was Competition for which up badly that cant be anything but bad news for journalists in Canada and for Canada As a Turner tells reporters internal criticism Turner downplays internal criticism up John Turner acknowledged yester Day that his performance in Parlia ment and his style As Liberal Leader were criticized by fellow liberals during a special caucus but there were also indications he had shown some muscle on the cruise missile fighting indications that his leadership is being questioned within the downplayed the criticism and said he countered with suggestions that his maps can pull up their own Ive said that we had a full and Frank discussion and How we were All going to improve our performance in the House of commons As opposition Turner told re porters at the end of a today soul searching session by Liberal maps and that criticism involved All of including the and it meant i welcomed the suggestions just As i hoped the members of the i caucus welcomed certain observations i made As to the performance of the caucus As an Turner entered the caucus meet ing under the Shadow of a report which quoted an unidentified Liberal former Cabinet minister As say ing some liberals Are convinced Turner is contemplating a Resigna Tion announcement by the Story was preceded by suggestions from Liberal insiders that some party members Are unhappy with Turners performance since he took Over As opposition Leader in his rather erratic style on Televik his approach in debates and the commons question including the use of Cue cards to remind himself of what he wants to have been singled one Liberal caucus member con firmed yesterday that those Points were raised privately in the session but said they came up Only Turner downplayed the it want an Turner and the reports we were Reading or listening to seemed the liberals spent a Good Deal of the sessions first Day discussing prime minister Mulroney and his motives and Raymond Quebec Cau Cus said a Long discussion ensued monday about what liberals see As Mulroney desire perhaps by his Success at the polls fast fall to be loved by both sides at the same National caucus chairman Doug Frith admitted he should not have broken party ranks in publicly urging the caucus to oppose resumption of testing of the built cruise missile in i spoke out of Frith apologetically told the news Montreal my Warren a Strong advocate of a freeze on test ing and deployment of nuclear Wear also declined to repeat his views on the missile or answer questions about the indicating Turner is exercising some muscle in making sure the party Speaks with one Frith had made his comments opposing the missile tests a Day before the missile was tested or the second time Over Northwestern Ebsary witness says up James of Sydney testified yesterday that Sandy Seale and Don Ald were robbing him and Roy Newman on the night Seale was fatally Ebsary is on trial for the third time on a charge of the Case is expected to go to the fireman jury today after one More witness Macneil is the Only witness so far in this trial to testify that a robbery was in Progress on May but his Story agrees with a tape played to the jury on monday in which Ebsary told police in 1982 that he took a swipe at Seale with a pocket knife after the youth and Marshall asked him for Macneily version conflicts directly with marshalls denial earlier in the trial that there was any plan to Rob the two Marshall had been convicted of murdering his he served 11 years in prison before it was deter mined in 1982 that he was not the Marshall told police in before he was that he and Seale were out to commit he backed up the statement during the two previous Ebsary trials but denied it this explaining he Felt compelled to admit robbery to Clear himself of the Sun editor regrets up wire service loss Winnipeg Sun editor Kelly Armstrong says the newspaper has no Choice but to use the Canadian press wire service after it took Over United press obviously were going to end up with up Armstrong said last there just int any other much of the news copy the Sun receives from up will have to be rewritten to suit the newspapers he we try to As much As to go for the human Angle instead of the institutional Armstrong said he expects his newspaper will have to pay quite a bit More for up than it did although he specify a the newspaper subscribed to up for about half the amount it would have had to pay for the up he although he said the additional Cost probably wont Hurt the Sun Armstrong said it wont Likely help the major concern we have is that we dont have that second voice he weekend special All rooms at Par sat or nights limited time offer the Toronto Sun which has papers in Cal Gary and had held 80 per cent of the remaining 20 per cent transferred to Sun owner ship tuesday and included in the total package sold to up had been held by the wire service United press Toronto Sun publishing is in turn controlled by Maclean 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