Looking for Trouble
by Peter Worthington | Biographies & Memoirs | This book has not been rated.
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Peter Worthington (1927 – 2013) was your classic, flinty journalist and a right-of-centre (but not too right) writer/editor and co-founder of the Toronto Sun. Before the upstart Toronto Sun tabloid paper came along in 1971, The Globe and Mail (national), Toronto Telegram and Toronto Star (city papers) - all broadsheets - were the 3 kings in Toronto. Peter served in WW2 and as a journalist, travelled all over the world with the Toronto Telegram. Assignments included travel to the USA, New Guinea, Korea, Russia and Africa. While on assignment in Texas with The "Tely" in 1963, Peter found himself in the underground garage where Lee Harvey Oswald was shot. He even felt the energy of the gun blast, and all of a sudden had a policeman's gun under his chin. The upstart Toronto Sun rose from the ashes of the defunct Toronto Telegram. It became a very popular newspaper, with its blaring headlines, shorter, punchier articles, lots of sports and a "Sunshine Girl" every day. Like all newspapers these days, it has experienced large declines in circulation and advertising revenue, but it is still publishing. This book is going to have some amazing stories, and I'll pass it over to Donfiction first.