According to one expert quoted by CP about his fraud conviction, pretty good. But a former prosecutor in the case said Conrad Black is not going to wiggle out from under the obstruction of justice charge.

A Harris-Decima poll asked Canadians how their media consumption patterns have changed. The answers shouldn't surprise you.

Speaking on CBC Radio's The Current on Tuesday, historian Michael Bliss said he thinks the news media in Canada have too often given politicians an easy ride when covering corruption issues.

"The Oliphant inquiry in Canada is a nice example of this. We're having this inquiry so long after the fact because in Canada, we don't do enough investigative journalism," he said.

Bliss credited the CBC, particularly the investigative TV show The Fifth Estate, for continuing to pursue the story, but he should have given some credit to The Globe and Mail as well.

"My sense is that the more investigation the media does -- the more active and more critical the media is-- the better. The danger is that as the media weakens in the current Internet age, we'll see less and less of it," he said.

You can find the interview here. The passage I cite above is about 15 minutes in.