“7; phlet denying that 6,000,000 Jews
‘* World War Two.

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f plaint,’ and at huge expense to the

.NOW ‘THAT the Zundel trial i is over, your man Doug, has
“been doing some figurin’. Can’t say that I’m an accountant,
“exactly, but you don’t need to be in that ieague to find out

what happened to media coverage of a trial (hat was of

” ‘ great importance to freedom of speech,

3h . soe 7 2

i At the tisk of boring 3 you, |, ,
; Must repeat that Ernst Zundel was

| charged with “spreading false .

IL news”' in that he published a pam-

a

some people's propaganda.)

; were murdered by the Germans i in, i
Mail, asking whicther they had
Jews in Toronto laid a com- “‘caved in’! (as I had put it) to
“taxpayer Zundel was.tried twice.’
He. Was found guilty the first time |”

and Sentenced to 15 months. The _ Of course not.

judge screwed up, however, and a”
-be-trial was ‘ordered, which resulted oe

in, the’ ‘villain of the piece getting ©
ani H

the reasons for. the conclusion F-

or: the five. weeks pr ceding - ‘the end of the affair I
” saw ‘no Zundel coverage at all in ‘Canada’s National -
. Newspaper... .But'the verdict made the front page, and —

they-ran a letter from activist. Sol. Littman saying how :

splendid if was.””

y humble self, observing
pressure had Ied to a ©
: _ Bress. :
‘cond trial..1 wrote that major © cs ‘The Congress had “made a
imedia outlets had “‘in effect! ‘ts
~. agreed to ignore or otherwise play
a down the trial, ‘and gave facts to

-and virtually ignored by others.’

‘4 My counting began with the,
‘stance, and complained to the
Press Council that, Iwasa

; good. (He also believes | am anti-
’ Semitic, something that itis very:
easy.to be these days, judging by

Cohn wrote to the CBC, CTV, '
. the Toronto Star, and the Globe &

Jewish pressure. The CBC, the” 7
~ Star and the Globe all wrote back,
hand on heart, to say they hadn't:

There is no space to'go into all

drew. It is enough to say that the
: Canadian Jewish News (CJC) was :

. explicit on the | pressure » brought to
» bear by the Canadian Jewish Con-

determined effart to sensitize the.
media to their particular obliga---
ion"’,.ctc, ‘and a Southam survey. ©
howed that the re-trial testimony

Q = Wednesday, May 25, 1988 - North Shore News

small daily stories. But for the first

~ time in its history'it announced it

would be playing them on the same

. spat every day'on an inside page,

“so that they would be casier to

“s find.**

response. But | wasn’t born’:
yesterday, and sneaked in through
the back door, sort of thing, to | |

_ talk to the assignment desk. (This -

“owas the first week in May.)

‘How many stories has the Na-
tional News carried on the Zundel
trial?” basked. .

The reply came without hesita-
tion, * es

_ “None.”

. “1 knew that, but nearly fell of
my scat laughing because in his :

- reply to.Cohn.a CBC executive had
stated that my claim was ‘‘abso-

~ lutely unfounded as far as the CBC
was concerned.'' °° -

_” “CBC decisions as to what to
report are independently made by;
professional journalists, who not _—
only ignore outside pressure but...
must set aside theis personal opi-
nions in making professional

* judgments.”*. . ;

-. Yeah. We know. a a

Over to CTV to my old buddy
Lioyd Robertson. :

““How many stories on Zundel,-

* Lloyd?" soe
“ Lloyd goes away to cheek and .
rings back, ‘'One,"” he said. “The
_. day the trial -opened.!7"

The Globe didn't ignore, :

: anything. /Not'much. I found’

/ about seven stories buried on pages.
“10; 14 and 15, most of them'tiny.
(Cohn calls this ‘‘ample."") There.
was also‘an editorial, praising the :
judge for taking ‘ "judicial notice!’
:of the Holocaust.:

For the five weeks preceding the
end of the affair! saw no Zundel -
coverage at all in‘“Canada’s Na-* ~
“tional Newspaper,” But the vérdi
made the front page,’ and they rar

a letter. from activist Sol Litman

. saying how splendid it was:

The Toronto Star did ¢ carry

Locally, the Morning Wimp car-
tied a one-paragraph item when
the trial opened. Until the verdict
was handed down, the rest was
silence, -- ne

The Evening wimp did better
than its morning version, but you"
couldn't exactly call it splash
treatment. Prior to the end of the
trial, it carried eight stories over ©
the three-month period.

What the Press Council will.

make of all this | don't knaw..Nor » §

do I much care. I know what I
make ofit@® .° * a

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