Doug Collins

@ get this straight @

THE MANUFACTURING and managing of the news is
an ancient art. It goes back to Biblical times and is not con-
fined to politicians. The media are good at it, too.

An example is the fuss over a
couple of South Africans coming
here for an international raihvay
conference sponsored by Expo.
“South Africans Coming Despite
Sanctions,” screamed a headline in
the Vancouver Evening Wintp.

More sensations followed:
“South Africans Invited On Free
Tour Of B.C.", read a second ef-
fort. My God! What next?
Heinrich Himmler?

The stories were worth no more
than a couple of paragraphs below
the second-hand bike ads. But
South Africa has replaced AIDS in
the shock market, and the usual
crowd came out screaming.

We were also given the ofd “The
Vancouver Sun has fearned...”"
nonsense, just as if Rick Ouston
had sleuthed Adolf Hitler sneaking
into a food bank for a handout.
We learned, too, that in Ed Broad-
bent’s view the presence of these
railwaymen was an AFFRONT to
sanctions.

{ doubt whether he ran (o the
Sun, though. ‘‘Phone Broadbent,”
I can hear some deskman saying,
“He'll give you some juicy
quotes.'’ In the same way, one
Zayed Gamiet of the Southern
Africa Action Coalition was con-
tacted. ‘‘Tell us what you think of

this dreadful development,
Zayed.”

The stories were propaganda,
keep-the-pot-boiling exercises, i:
being the opinion of the orchestra
conductors that the CNR, B.C.
Rail and other sinister forces
should not play host to official
untouchables.

* * *

Compare the retching and heav-
ing of the media on the above
“scandal’’ to the murmurs of ap-
proval on the Goldberg visit.

Goldberg has a record as 4 ter-
rorist, and for his efforts spent 24
years in a South African jug. But
you didn’t see any headlines
announcing:

“Terrorist
Canada!”

On the contrary, it was soup and
cracker time. There are, you see,
two kinds of terrorism — good and
bad. When it’s good terrorism, the
clergy and civic notables come out
(o clap, as they did for Goldberg.

Goldberg's claim to fame is that
he was convicted along with Nelson
Mandela for “attempting to over-
throw the white supremacist
Pretoria government.,”’ as the
Sun’s news report so delicately put
It.

Makes Tour Of

{The gevernment of South
Africa is always 0 “white
supremacist’, but the one in
Angola and certain other great
democracies are never referred to
as “Saviet clent states’. The
U.LS.S.R. is never a “red dictator-
ship’, either.)

On the radio, Goldberg was
described as a ‘tformer political
prisoner’*. You might have thought
he was some parlor-pink who had
been bundied into the clink for his
views, [In Tact he was a member of
agany led by Mandela who in 1963
were caught on a farm in the
Transvaal with an arsenal of
210,000 hand grenades, 48,000 land
mines tnd 50 tons of explosives,

A Revolutionary Council of
State was to have been set up, and
if it had come into being it is
unlikely that Desmond Tutu would
have had a place in it. 1 doubt, too,
whether Mandela and Goldberg
would have taken kindly to high-
minded parsons like our Ar-
chbishop Ted Scott poking around
in their precincts.

jt was found that Mandela,
whom Brian Baloney and some
other demented Western politicians
see as a hero, had writen in his
own hand: ‘'We of the Communist
Party are the most advanced
revolutionaries in modern history
and we are the fighters of the drive
to revolutionize the world...’".

It would be nice to get al/ the
news. Wouldn't it?

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