TO VANCOUVER for the media brawl with Ambassador
Glenn Babb of South Africa. Outside the hotel, the usual
left-wing rent-a-crowd is chanting its songs: Svend Robin-
son, the gays’ MP; Pauline Weinstein, Larry Kuehn and

friends.

Inside, some female from
CKNW anxious to show how
dumb she is, asks Mr. Babb why
black reporters are ‘‘tortured and
killed for doing their work".
Wearily, the ambassador informs
her that South Africa is the only
country in Africa that has an in-
dependent judiciary and that the
police cannot do what they like
with people without facing conse-

f quences. (Uniike certain cops in
Vancouver, he might have added.)

Most of the questions justify
the title of the discussion -- ‘‘Is Ig-
norance Bliss?’’? -- which was
meant to be a crack against the

| South Africans. But at least there
was a discussion, even though the
sponsoring Centre for In-
vestigative Journalism (CIJ) was

f under heavy pressure to call the
whole thing off in the name of
democracy. :

The CIJ wanted to be fair, but

;' not foo fair. So in addition to Mr.
Babb the panel line-up was:
A French-speaking black from
! Quebec who had been to Southern
- Africa to make a propaganda
film; a CBC producer named
Tony Burman who had been to
the Republic to report on the bad
b guys; sociologist Heribert Adam
| of SFU, who has made a profes-
* sion of bashing the Babbs, and
§ CBC hero Peter Gsowski himself.
f As a neutral chairman, Gsowski
asked hostile questions of the am-
bassador but not of anyone else.

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subscribe to the current idiot
belief that nothing will be right
with South Africa until there is
“one man one vote’, which in the
African context is a laugh. For
them, too, the sins of South
Africa are not duplicated in the
rest of Africa because the dic-
tators are black. Only the much
more liberal whites are in the
wrong.

Censorship and apartheid were
the themes -- plus complaints that
not everyone and his dog can get
into South Africa. But foreign TV
coverage of the country has been
vast, which is precisely why peo-
ple think the place is uniquely evil.
Massive tribal (racial) slaughters
have taken place in other African
countries -- Zimbabwe, for exam-
ple -- without a single camera crew
or reporter being allowed into the
affected areas.. Yes, ignorance
really is bliss.

When the ambassador says
there 172 foreign correspondents
in the country now, the response
is that that’s not good enough.
Nor is it accepted that the
presence of TV crews can add to
the violence. No one stops to
think that the chanters outside the
hotel are there only because the
cameras are there too. When the
cameras leave, so do the chanters.

My scrutiny of the South
African press shows that all the

When will these children grow
up? Right there in the hotel 1
spoke to Paul Watson the conser-
vationist, who during our FLQ
dust-up was arrested on the streets

of Vancouver for having written a |

pamphlet on the Papineau
Rebellion, At about the same
time, I was about to do an inter-

view in a CBC studio in Ottawa |

when orders came from Knowlton
Nash that until further notice the
FLQ wasn't even to be mention-

ed. in Quebec, hundreds of peo- :

ple were put into the pokey
without cause. Yet the FLQ thing
was just a joke compared to the
troubles South Africa is facing.

I nearly fell down taughing
when CBC panelist Burman said
straight-faced that his stuff from
South Africa had been ‘balanced"’
but he couldn’t get back there.
“Yeah,’’ I told the audience --

“ust like that 40-minute Journal |

piece in which the white South

Africans got 40 seconds.’ He |

then made me laugh even more by
saying that he’d had no trouble in
commie-dominated Ethiopia and
Mozambique. | said that didn’t
surprise me at ail.

The ambassador told me later
that the CBC was considering
whether to run the South African
TV ad it has so far refused to run.
But, he said, they wanted to cut
out the bits that showed blacks
and whites together in
restaurants, ete. And Burman
wonders why he can’t get back to
South Africa!

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