I found your July 6th editorial by Karen Valihora, titled ‘Post Media: When No News Is Good News’ a truly illuminating read. It was her stated opinion that ‘Postmedia’ is not the slightest bit interested in news or its newspapers, and certainly not to the communities they once served.

Valihora goes on to suggest that Postmedia’s community newspapers are not actually newspapers at all, rather merely advertising flyers masquerading as newspapers. (Well said!)

She also points out the millions of tax-dollars ‘Postmedia’ has received in bailouts and subsidies since 2020 from both the federal government and the Province of Quebec. Despite those ‘hand-outs’, Postmedia still thought it financially prudent to shutter an additional 15 community newspapers and eliminate a further 70 jobs.

Now I’ll readily admit that I’ve never been enamoured by any of the Postmedia publications I’ve encountered over the years including our allegedly ‘local’ ‘County Weekly News’ which, for the minuscule amount of news contained in its weekly pages, often appears to me to be far more Belleville-centric than ‘County’. However, is it really any wonder if, according to Ms. Valihora, there are only two editor-reporters employed by Postmedia to cover all four of their regional papers throughout our geographic area?

Like all Canadians, I dutifully pay my taxes to all levels of government. That said, in terms of any of those monies going to support the ongoing antics of ‘Post Media’… I’m one Canadian who’d like his money back.

B. Kalt

Picton, Ontario