We Distort. You Decide.

Any doubts about where Canada's National Post stands on the prosecution of its founder and former owner, Conrad Black, were put to rest this morning.

In a news article today on Black's fraud trial, the Post excoriates the prosecution's top witness, Black's former right-hand man, David Radler. Or, as he is known in the Post, "a modern-day Brutus."

To drive home its opinion of Radler for its slower-witted readers, the Post helpfully adds this subtle sketch of the man: "The penny-pinching boss who demanded loyalty despite his distrust of everyone, and who then turned on a friendship and partnership of more than 35 years."

Black is on trial in federal court in Chicago for having accepting millions of dollars in "noncompete" payments from newspapers his former company, Hollinger International, had sold off. Prosecutors contend that since the agreements forbade Hollinger from starting competing newspapers, the payments belong to the company, and not its executives.

by Mark Stein

Photograph of Conrad Black by Scott Olson/Getty Images