8 — Sun events Shale nday, May 25, 1986,- North.Shore News Collins speaks at Socred meeting ‘NORTH. ‘SHORE News columnist Doug Collins will be the featured “speaker: at ‘the’ annual general _ meeting of the. North Vancouver- Seymour Social Credit Constituen- ‘cy Association. Scheduled for May 28 at 7:30 p.mi., the meeting will be held at the North Shore Winter Club. Everyone is welcome to at- tend, Voting on resolutions will be restricted to Social Credit.. party members, but debate is open to everyone. For further information call 988-7212, WHEN’ “THE ‘marvelious- ‘telegraph was about’ to link Massachusetts with’ Texas, Henry David Thoreau was unimpressed.’ ‘‘That’s all very well,’?. he said, ‘‘but will Massachusetts have anything to say to Texas?” I thought of that last Sunday when South ‘African Ambassador - Glenn Babb spoke in North Van. ->Forin this age of communication, ‘the more we communicate the less _ | we © communicate,” ‘and “the _ marvellous telegraph of today -- television -- by. its very: nature. n . plain-clothes officer. Which also -became. part of the show, - naturally. distorts. I'am not talking about wii distortion of the kind seen on pro- grams like‘the::CBC’s, Journal, where a 40-minute. ‘‘documen- ary’? on South Africa gave us 40° econds .from a white’ South African: Within: the prescribed ‘limits, the CBC and .-BCTV ‘reporters. covering the. Babb. the more attention they get. Take the obnoxious little black fellow who interrupted” the am-. bassador’s interviews. Face con- torted with hatred, he followed. ‘his. target into the corridor © shouting. invective, and stopped only when confronted by a RCMP ‘Take |, the. protesting bores, looneys, commies and naive twits chanting their bilge outside. Like _ - that of the rotten little black fanatic, their role was to dilute the ambassador’s message. And they returned to. their ‘lairs weil .. satisfied, having’ ‘gained both opening and closing. ‘shots i in the Babb Special. - ‘himself delive : or picking berri y interviewed » Mr.. Babb. hey. talked: to the’ organizers of. ‘In ‘such. scenarios, “the -main ‘event .is nothing’ more than. “backdrop. Any reporter who went “ back to‘ hisstudio with the real ‘Babb. story would. soon find himself delivering milk or picking _ berries. Knowing all that, the organizers, of the meeting invited the media “to attend the speech and question period -- but no cameras: please. doesn’t want a circus. _ _ Hf you are looking. for the am- assador’ S message, and by ‘‘am- ssador’’ I now mean anyone or. that cannot be described Seconds’ or.so,” forget TV: news. ‘Search for your truth in a many truths. Try in “depth articles; books, or th TV news ‘items. ; Did you know, for instance, that South: Africa is. vital to Western defence, and ‘that. South African minerals ‘are vital to-f Western industry? Or. that the A CET] «*..the USSR, watching the beleaguered Rupublic with vulture gaze, has sent its:most efficient ‘diplomats’ to the |. states bordering’ south : Africa for the purpose of hastening its fall?’’.. USSR, watching the beleaguered Republic with vulture; gaze, has sent its most ‘efficient: “diplomats’’ to the states border- ‘ing on South Africa for.the pur- : pose of hastening its fall? Or that the UN, dominated by an alliance of Third World and communi states, has. spent. $100- million on _ anti-South African. propaganda? _Or. that the most powerful official’ ‘in the African National Congress is. a: white. Lithuanian * with the. in ie rank: of colonel in the KGB? - - Are you ‘aware that the. blacks: ‘ of South Africa are not an entity “but a. dozen.’ nations. “and: ‘trib -: Interviews would.be’ given later. ..- .. An audience’ that has paid’ $10 to hear. what someone. has: to Say~ . throats if they. had the’ opportu: ty? Or that * - Brian Baloney $ - Canada and our crazy churches - support . ANC ‘terrorism white "two. facedly..: condemning t elsewhere? - If you know about, these thin “you did not get, them from televi- “sion news, or for thats matter from ~ television at all. -‘The-most power- “ful. medium rarely tells . such’ Joan Cripps : R ner al - S truths. Iti is scared of “supporting A Circulation Dep tek “racism’?,.. - af 1139 Lonsdale Ave., N. 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