Mirror, Mirror On The Wall: Will Alternative Weeklies Fall?
Will Straw, PhD
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Posted 08.25.2012
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Canada
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When the Mirror was launched in the mid-1980s, it touted its independence and social purpose. I remember going to benefit concerts and parties organized to help it get off the ground and survive. But it's been shut down, and I fear even an online version wouldn't be able to pay even the most abysmal of salaries, or even reassert itself as a go-to source for young Montreal anglos.
