Rex Murphy: Ending a column for causing offence is gutless, St. John’s Telegram

Newfoundland, or maybe I should say Newfoundlanders, have always been a little more relaxed in their ways and speech than the more genteel mainlanders. I did a long stint at the CBC’s “Here and Now” in St. John’s, which besides interviews and small documentaries, also loosed me to do commentary.

Variously, I was showered with contempt, scorn and insult eloquently expressed in the Dominion supermarket in Churchill Square, by check-in clerks at local motels, on the wharves of the most distant outports. One “reaming” stands out to this day. It was delivered by lonely fisherman way up on the Northern Peninsula, over something I had said on TV the previous evening. It was brutal and brilliant, the man could talk as Paganini could fiddle. Great invective is an art to admire.

Two guys in the Beer Truck, wheeling in the 24 cases of Blue Star and Jockey Club , saw me at the counter, and from the strip of frost that raced from them to me, I knew they: were not fans of mine; and stood in some sort of romantic relationship with the Habs. I had never seen a death ray before. Yet there it was, sorry, there they were, all four of them, blazing out of the eyes of the Beer Truck guys. .

Here’s the point, for those of you who have been kind enough to wait for it: say a hard thing in Newfoundland, expect a hard response. And, here’s the other point: glory in both.Rex Murphy A columnist, Brian Jones at the Evening Telegram, wrote a column last week contrasting the security of civil servants, during this pandemic, with those who do not have guaranteed salaries and employment. It was a mild column. It made a valid point. Roughly there are two classes in this pandemic.

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I found the video of rex in the habs jersey

A columnist getting fired for a dishonest attack on public workers must have sent a chill down the back of every hack at Post Media.

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