Sun Media has pulled its newspapers out of the Ontario Press Council, complaining about the "politically correct mentality" of the province's print-media watchdog.
Glenn Garnett, Sun Media's vice-president of editorial, sent a letter to the council earlier this week saying that the company's newspapers were withdrawing their membership, effective immediately.
"The editorial direction of our newspapers, especially our urban tabloids, is incompatible with a politically correct mentality that informs OPC thinking, in the selection of cases it hears, and the rulings it renders," Garnett wrote.
And what direction do they wish to protect?
The Toronto Sun recently came under fire for its decision to publish a photograph of Prince William's wife Kate at the precise moment a gust of wind lifted her dress.
Editor-in-Chief James Wallace defended the decision, saying the Sun delivers "news with edge and attitude" and that the picture was deemed to be "compelling and newsworthy."
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