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BUT PRESS COUNCIL
CENSURES NS NEWS

A READER’S COMPLAINT that columnist Doug
Collins’ ‘‘real interest is to incite racial hatred’’ has
been disinissed by the B.C. Press Council.

At the same time, the
Council has upheld two other
aspects of the complaint
against Collins and the North
Shore News.

The complaint was in-
vestigated, with all parties
present, at a closed hearing
held by the Council on March
24.

The full text of the Coun-
cil’s ruling, announced
Wednesday, is as follows:

“A complaint against the
North Shore News involving
columnist Doug Collins and a
book banned in Canada has
been partially opt: d by the
B.C. Press Council.

“In a column last August
29, Collins opposed the ban-
ning of the book, The Hoax
of the Twentieth Century, by
an American professor, A.R.
Butz, which claims the
Holocaust was a hoax and
that the Nazis did not kill six
million Jews in the Second
World War.

‘The column prompted an
exchange between Collins
and Dr. Philip Pinkus of
West Vancouver, a professor

BABY Corey, and the
Friday News he holds are
both celebrating their
first year. This third edi-
tion of the North Shore
News allows us to cover
more completely the area
we serve. Read the com-
plete story on the first
year of the Friday News
on page 3.

of English at the University
of B.C., who protested Col-
lins’ treatracnt of the issue.
One of Dr. Pinkus’ letters
was reproduced in a subse-
quent Collins column and
another was published as a
letter to the editor.

“Dr. Pinkus complained
to the Press Council at a
hearing that Collins lent
credence to the Butz book by
indicating it presented
material about the Holocaust
that should be considered
seriously. He said people
didn’t see it as simply a col-
umn oun book banning. He
pointed out that the headline
on the column, How big
WAS the Holocaust? was not
about book banning.

“Dr. Pinkus said that in
one of his columns, Collins
had accused him of being a
book banner, comparing him
with Hitler, and that he had
no opportunity to refute the
accusation because the paper
cut off debate on the issue.
He declared he did not
believe in banning books.

“Noel Wright, editoz-in-

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