COLLINS RESPONDS TO PRESS COUNCIL RULING Sun had Dear Editor: Here I am, in the self-inflicted cold and already wring letters to the editor. What a comedown. i refer to the B.C. Press Council’s dismissal of my doubie-barrelled complaint concerning the Vancouver Sun, one barrel of which was aimed zt the Sun’s re- fusal to run a letter from me. (See the North Shore News of July 9.) The council stated that on technical grounds, and pieeretfully, ”* it could not uphold that complaint “pewspapess are not obliged to grant woateatie right of response.”’ It added that it disagreed with Collins’ (my) con- tention that he (I) had ‘‘an absolute right”’ to have the letter published. Neither in writing nor verbally did 1 tell the council that I had ‘tan absolute right’’ to anything. Oaly the ‘kings of old and present dictators had or have any such right. ° Press Council story ATYPOGRAPHICAL error in a ‘moral obligation’ 1 did say that the Sun had a moral obligation to run the letter, since the issue involved an attempt by Aziz Khaki to put the North Shore News and myself out of business, and { was responding to Nicole Parton’s failure to report that. I also said there was such a thing as ‘‘a right of response.” I am considering taking the Press Council to the Press Council for bad reporting. One other point. San editor Frank Rutter was quoted as saying that the [etter “could have raised legal _problems.’” Well, Mr. Rutter’s statement is in the “if pigs had wings they could fly’? department. Not only was the letter perfectly safe; when a member of the council asked Mr. Rutter at the hearing whether the letter had been referred to a lawyer, he admitted it had not. Bocg Coltisis West Vanconver corrected umn. July 9 News story reporting the dismissal of a B.C. Press Council complaint by recentiy-retired News columnist Doug Collins against Vancouver Sun columnist Nicole Parton inadvertently changed the meaning of part of the council’s decision. Collins, in part, complained that though he had not been specifically named in Parton’s Jan. 24 column that made reference to ‘‘a North Shore columnist’? who employed “‘the language of hate’ in writing about minovities, it was clear the reference vias to him. He told the council thai the Sun had failed to publish his letter to the editor responding to the col- The Press Council determined - that ‘‘Whiie the council agrees that Mr. Collins probably would have been recognized as the author of the quotations used by Mrs. Par- ton, it disagrecs with his conten- tion that he had an aksolute right to have his letter to the editor of the Sun publish Make cleaning between a daily routine. 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