TROUBLES AT THE GLOBE.

This article focuses on the conflict between two Canadian newspapers, the National Post and the Globe and Mail. Phillip Crawley came to Canada in 1998 with a simple mission: kill the upstart National Post. As publisher of the Globe and Mail, he was heralded as a battle-hardened veteran of newspaper wars in his native Britain and was given the support and considerable resources of the Globe's owner and Canada's richest man, Ken Thomson, to repulse the challenge of Conrad Black's cheeky and ambitious new daily. Most media observers are quick to say the Globe has won the newspaper war, but Crawley knows better. If Crawley and Thorsell are right and the Post is here for good, it not only has deep significance for Crawley's legacy as publisher--it has enormous implications for the Globe's business, and for the sector as a whole. Three Toronto financial analysts, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the business is not as healthy as Crawley claims.