The long time Globe columnist, CBC commentator, host of Cross Country Checkup …and all round Newfoundland favourite son won’t be able to be read in print in Newfoundland any more because the National Post …a NATIONAL newspaper does not distribute in the province.

No big announcements. Most people heard when Peter Mansbridge mentioned it in the extro to Rex’s piece on The National. Could it have been a part of the CBC – National Post content sharing agreement?  Is it a part of new Globe editor, John Stackhouse’s, new plan? Or were Stackhouse and crew less than impressed with Rex's appearances in a rival paper after Murphy’s December 5 column in the Financial Post.

Oddly enough, the Globe and Mail used to be considered the right wing conservative paper before the National Post came on the scene.

Some are saying he was starting to drift a little too far to starboard (the right side of the boat) so could a senate appointment be next?  …NAW!, that's going to a Loyola.

But can you imagine the blood bath in the senate chamber when Rex was turned loose?
Duffy would be stuffed. dressed and with an apple in his mouth laid out on the clerks table.

Check out the discussion at Ian Capstick’s Media Style blog.