Before Christmas, Tory election team honcho Doug Finley sent out a fundraising letter to the faithful claiming he was shocked -- shocked!! -- that a CBC reporter has been accused of passing questions to a Liberal MP to ask Mulroney about Schreiber.

From a memo by Cincinnati Post editor Mike Philipps to his newsroom staff on what will happen today, the last day the 126-year-old afternoon newspaper will ever publish:

John Vissman will arrange for food, beverages and treats for all as we get the last editions out, clean out our desks and say good-bye. But . . . tempting as it may be . . . please do not bring any alcoholic beverages into the newsroom. Let's go out like the professionals we have been these last, difficult weeks.

Observed The Daily Bellwether's Bill Sloat:

So that is the script for the day a newspaper dies. No booze. Turn in the cell phones. Your e-mail accounts at the office are turned off. And you can take six copies of the paper with you before the doors are locked forever.

(From TDB via Romensko)

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