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NERTIA over Indian Arm water
| quality is. as frustrating as it is
unsettling.

There is something wrong in the
slow-flushing body of water — most
North Shore residents know that — but
a concerted lack of action on the part of

‘government is blocking any effort to get

to the bottom of the problem.

In the latest non-action, Victoria has
conceded in its most recent B.C.
Envircnment ministry report . that
Indian Arm water quality is not good.

Evidence of that poor quality. sur-
faces regularly in Deep Cove, where

ie ene Ten oe

I ‘have been thinking about —
iournalistic integrity. .

What's that you say?
“Journalistic integrity” i is an oxy:
moron? Ha, Carefui, fella, unless
you'd like to find your name mis-
spelled in the papers for the rest
of your life.

No, this thought was quite
serious.

Long years ago T whispered to
my notebook, receptacle of many secrets, that
journalism reveals j just a certain kind of truth, and
then only so much of it.

It aiso iuminates why the watchword of
Malcolm Muggeridge, a very clever and successful
journalist who turned disconcertingly serious and
even Christian in his later years, was: “Trath, not
facts! Truth, nor facts!

That is a tall order, It is hard enough for jour-
halists to ferret out the facts, More pointedly, as
Joe Klein has discovered, it isn’t easy to hide them
either.

Klein is the Newsveck magazine political colum-
nist who ~— after months of frenzied speculation,
and only when he was about to be min to ground
by a handwriting analyst -— confessed that he was.
the author of a sensational American best-seller,
Primary Colors.

This book described the 1992 U.S, presidential
election campaign so vividly that insiders declared
it could only have been written by — well, an
insider. Its authorship was coyly attributed to
“Anonymous.”

Klein was an carly suspect. He denied all. He
continued to deny all until his cover was about to
be blown,

This episode has created a frenzy of ethics-mea-

OM NED BINRAA IT AWOL A VEEL LT ES TOW aerate BOLE

Panorama Beach has been closed to
public swimming off and on for the past
decade. And the lingering sickness in
the Arm continues.

In mid-July, for example, fecal col-
iform counts from samples teken in the
Panoraina area hit readings of up to
3,006 parts per 100 millilitres of water.

Anything over 200 fecal coliforms
per 100 miililitres contravenes Health
Canada guidelines for swimming.

The Environment Ministry water
quality report has called for a study on
Indian Arm. Study, for al! students of
politics, is another word for stall.

Especially in the case of Indian Arm,

TWS WILL COME AS

A SUAPRISE TO OUR

VIEWERS, BUT WE'VE

JUST LEARNED
THAT THERE ARE

"AUBIETES FROM
GIHER COUNTRIES
COMPETING HERE IN

suring and navel- staring among
journalists. ; .

Klein had, simply, lig
while the royalties rolled in by
the gazillions,

But there sas more.

What immensely widened
the nroral issue was thar his
Boss, Newnveck editor Maynard
Parker, knew the tradh from the
beginning.

And not only did Parker pre-
tend ignorance of the authorship to the outside
world — i¢., he lied —- burt (what else?) he had to
maingain this facade with his own staff, and specifi-
cally with a. columnist who speculated in print on
who the author was, None of his guesses was
Klein.

cil the time, Parker knew.

So the editor ef a supposedly respectable maga
zine stood by and ran with a lie — or at any rate a
speculation that he knew was erroneous.

That, of Course, passed the deception on from
the magazine’s staff to its readers.

Now another case — a bizarre counterpoint to
the above,

In May, reporter Roger Charles, rooting among
old records, discovered that US. Chief of Naval
Operations Mike Boorda was sporting medals on
his chest that he hadn’t earned and wasn’t entitled
to.

Charles contacted Boorda and arranged an
interview about the marter. The interview never
took place. Boorda shor himself.

And fase week Charles’ employer, the National
Security News Service, recognized Charles’ contri-
bution. In a way. He was fired,

Donations to the non-profit orga anization had
dropped since. ‘Boorda’s sensational suicide, and the

of biases

where studies on pollution in Deep
Cove have beea undertaken and filed —
numerous times over the past decade.

But even action on a study appears
wreathed in, bureaucratic fog. Not a pri-
ority, according to Environment
Minister Paul Ramsey. No money, shrug.
ministry staff.

Here’s a simple solution that won’t
take years of study: instali sewage
pumping stations in Deep Cove harbor” ‘
for ail recreational vessels using Indian
Arm. It’s a measure recommended years
ago and never acted upon.

Act on it now, Victoria. Give a hand
to an ailing Arm.

Paim trees”
applauded

Dear Editor:

> Palm trees on the: berm of.
Waterfront Park — Ciry of North
Vancouver.

[ am writing regarding the issue
of the removal of the maple trees and
replacing them with: the .donated
palin trees-at Waterfront Park:"1 was
most surprised by Councillor ‘Stella
Jo Dean’s remarks that the Tie trees
would be “un-Canadian
a questionable remark! ©

Are maple trees the best ie eésfor
Waterfront Park even though they,

. are much more expensive fo maintady
cand will eventually block’the.4
our Canada Place ‘across the wate

We enjoy WaterfrontPark and all,
the. activities thar: North Vancouver;
City provides “free of charge.” :

_ T believe thar the palm: trees
emake. a unique mulnculeural:s
“nent to beautify our waterfr
I. Zaste. :
North Vancouver.

news service wis $60, 000i in the red.

And there you have it. Joe Klein told -— an
lived =a journalistic fie. And he's sail ge
and he’s loaded.

Roger Charles gold the journalistic re th. ‘And
he was fired.

. These cases illustrate not just the flaws ofj jou
nalism, which many citizens might gree! with a,
yawn, but the ambiguities of liberty: doring? A lot :.,
of people are too worn with the daily ‘eratching ~
for a living to pay much attention to the abstract:
vocabulary offiberty, *.

Readers of this paper; however, unless [ mis.
judge thers. are more sharply aware of the value

(and, yes, the cost) of liberty than most,'and that
of course is largely because of Doug Collins, who ,
recently has once again been the target of angry
protest. ,

That's perfectly legitimate; Doug expects to get’ ;
as goxd as he y ives, ‘

But he’s public. That's more than.can be said
of the authors of the anonymous tirades against:
him — one of which, tiped, T heard, and whieh"
was vile hatred and murderous threat in equal
measure. ;

That's not lejetiniate, and, ifthe threat is seen
as serious, even legal, But since then thi paper has
felt obliged to add the italic note you're about to
read, placed at the end ofall our columns.

And 1 regret chat, because it says the obvious
— which alas, in our increasingly up- tight society,
is no longer so obvious.

@ Stop press: Derrick Humphreys running‘ for
mayor of West Vancouver at ave 83.

— The North Shore News believes strongly in free
dom of speech and the right of all stdes in a debate to
be heard. The coliemnises published in the News pre.
sent differing points of view, but those piews are noe *
necessarily those of the newspaper itself