The Toronto Star is a major metropolitannewspaper produced in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It has the largest circulation in the country, in excess of 400,000 daily, and is noted for its liberal stance.
While most of Canada's high-circulation newspapers and chains were swallowed by large media conglomerates during the 1990s in a process called 'convergence' (the Globe and Mail by BCE, the National Post by CanWest Global), Torstar, the Toronto Star's parent company, has limited itself to several Southern Ontario local newspapers and various publishing ventures, including Harlequinromancenovels. However, it has launched a license-exempt infomercial channel on Southern Ontario cable television systems (featuring rolling news at a certain point of the hour), and has attempted to win television licenses in Toronto and nearby cities.
Describing itself as a "paper for the people", the Star (originally known as the Evening Star) was created in 1892 by striking Afternoon News printers and writers. The paper did poorly in its first few years, but it prospered under editor Joseph "Holy Joe" Atkinson from 1899 until his death in 1948. Atkinson had a strong social conscience and, in keeping with the paper's tradition, championed many left-wing causes. By 1913 it had the largest circulation of any Toronto newspaper, and Atkinson was the majority shareholder. Ernest Hemingway was a Star writer in this period.
Atkinson principles
Shortly before his death Atkinson had ownership of the paper transferred to a charitable organization given the mandate of continuing the paper's liberal tradition (known today as the "Atkinson Principles"). Ontario's Conservative government of the time did not like the Star's editorial stance, however, and passed a law barring charitable organizations from owning a large part of a profit-making business, therefore requiring the Star to be sold. To circumvent this requirement, the trustees of the charitable organization bought the paper themselves and swore to continue the Atkinson Principles. Retention of the Atkinson Principles has led some detractors to say that 'the Star is the only newspaper in the world run by a dead man.'
Editorially, the Star is considered to be more liberal when compared to other major newspapers (Globe and Mail, National Post etc). It has been said that the Star urges readers to "think NDP and vote Liberal".
The TorontoStar is a major metropolitan newspaper produced in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
It has the largest circulation in the country, in excess of 400,000 daily, and is noted for its overall Liberal stance.
Describing itself as a "paper for the people", the Star (originally known as the Evening Star and then the TorontoDailyStar) was created in 1892 by striking Afternoon News printers and writers.
The Daily Planet is based in Metropolis and employs Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen; its chief editor is Perry White.
(Called the Evening Star prior to 1899, the TorontoDailyStar is now known as the TorontoStar.) When the Superman newspaper comic strip appeared, the fictional newspaper's name was permanently changed to the Daily Planet to avoid a name conflict with real newspapers which had Star in their name.
When DC made use of its multiverse means of continuity tracking between the early 1960s and mid-1980s, it was declared that the DailyStar was the workplace of the Golden Age or "Earth-Two" versions of Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, while the Daily Planet was unique to their Silver Age or "Earth-One" versions.
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