Sunburned: Memoirs of a Newspaperman

Dean Tudor is a professor of journalism at Ryerson University and author
of Finding Answers: The Essential Guide to Gathering Information in
Canada.

If you are looking for the inside story of Doug Creighton’s dismissal
from the Toronto Sun empire, this is not it. Creighton settled out of
court, with the usual media gag on any publication of details.

Creighton’s 43 years in journalism included 22 at the old Toronto
Telegram and 21 at The Toronto Sun. At both papers, he engaged in his
share of pranks and clowning around. There is something self-serving,
even petulant, about these memoirs. Certainly, the book is disorganized,
its slapdash writing indicative of a transcription from an audiotape,
and the lack of an index is a glaring omission. However, the book is
worth a read, especially for the sections on the Tely shutdown and the
Sun startup, as well as on the purchase of The Houston Post.