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''The Georgia Straight'' is a free Canadian weekly news and entertainment newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia, by the Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corp. As surveyed by VAC its per-issue circulation average , is 119,971 copies, and its average weekly readership is 804,000 .〔(Association of Alternative Newsweeklies )〕 Its website traffic ranked 47,339 globally and 1,458 within Canada, from Alexa.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/straight.com# )〕 ==History== The paper was founded as an underground newspaper in May 1967 by Pierre Coupey,〔(RickMcGrath.com )〕 Milton Acorn,〔 Dan McLeod, Stan Persky, and others, and originally it operated as a collective. The first issue appeared on May 5, 1967 and cost a dime. It was originally a biweekly. On May 12 Dan was taken away in a paddy wagon and jailed for three hours for "investigation of vagrancy." College Printers refused to print the second issue,〔(Vancouverhistory.ca )〕 but an alternative was found. The paper was raided and fined by the Vancouver Police for publishing obscenities, and was often banned from distribution for its criticism of the local police and politicians, especially Mayor Tom Campbell. Those controversies ended in the 1970s, as the paper moved to become a more conventional news and entertainment weekly, albeit with a progressive editorial slant. Often known simply as ''The Straight'', this large "tabloid" format unconventional publication is delivered to newsboxes, post-secondary schools, public libraries and a large variety of other locations around Metro Vancouver every Thursday. In October 2003, the provincial government sent ''The Straight'' a bill totalling more than $1 million for outstanding provincial sales tax. In British Columbia, print publications must have at least 25 per cent editorial content to be considered a newspaper, and to qualify for exemption from PST on printing bills. The extensive "Time Out" listing of the paper, detailing the ''what'' and ''where'' of virtually every public event in the city, was judged to be advertising - pushing the paper below the required thresholds for a newspaper. As reported by the CBC, publisher Dan McLeod said this re-interpretation of the rules was a politically motivated attempt to silence a persistent critic. "We're the only paper that is consistently critical of the government in our editorials week after week, and we're the only paper that's being fined a million dollars," he said. "So I put two and two together." However, not everyone agreed with McLeod's interpretation of events and pointed out that ''The Straight'' had a significantly lower editorial-to-advertising ratio than many other alternative and university papers.〔(Vancouver Scrum )〕 This highly public battle garnered considerable attention, and the BC government later issued a statement reversing their decision, stating "clearly the Georgia Straight is a newspaper..."〔(PROVINCE TO REVIEW NEWSPAPER TAX EXEMPTION POLICY ) Ministry of Provincial Revenue, Oct. 10, 2003〕 As noted by McLeod, the paper is known as a vocal critic of government, notably the former Liberal government of Gordon Campbell. An attempt in the mid-1990s at publishing a second ''Straight'' newspaper in Calgary, Alberta, the ''Calgary Straight'', was brief. Bob Geldof worked as a music journalist for the ''Georgia Straight'' in the 1970s before he returned to Ireland and joined the Boomtown Rats. A readership survey conducted on behalf of ''The Georgia Straight'' in 2007 found that: ''The Georgia Straight'' however is a weekly newspaper so comparing six weeks of issues to one week of issues is not the best comparison. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Georgia Straight」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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