Complaint against News
dropped before hearing

A COMPLAINT to the
B.C. Press Council against
the North Shore News over
a March 24, 1993, column
by Doug Collins has been
dropped.

The complaint, initially filed
with the council by Terence
Dawson, was withdrawn following
a detailed response sent to the
complainant by News managing
editor Timothy Renshaw.

Ina June 15, 1993, letter to the
News, council executive secretary
Gerald Porter stated that Dawson
had instructed the council that he
was ‘not prepared to hear his
complaint at a public adjudica-
tion. His reluctance to carry his
complaint forward came after a
night’s reflection....””

Collins’ March 24 column ques-
uoned the influence homosexual
lobby groups now have ‘in how the
media report on AIDS and other
issues.

Dawson complainea to the
council that the column was ‘‘per-
sonally offensive, highly bigoted,
homophobic and full of gross ex-
aggerations and inaccurate report-
ing.

In his written response to
Dawson’s complaint, Kenshaw
agreed that the. column ‘'was
unsettling and perhaps at times
crude and offensive to scme; ... it
‘pulled no punches and. took no
prisoners...

‘*But it also did what a good
newspaper column should do: it
raised issues and inspired a frank
exchange of ideas on subjects that

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NORTH SHORE News manag-
ing editor Tim Renshaw.

have, through the work of self-
interest groups and’ outspoken
minorities, become largely off-
limits for the mainstream
media....

“Mr. Collins’ columns may not
be to everyone's liking; they may
in fact be to a lot of people's ex-
treme disliking.

“But they do what they are
supposed to do; generate discus-
sion and passionate response from
their readership.

“To deny the majority of our
readers that service because of the
vehement objections of an
outspoken minority is to deny the
public a truly free press.””

The B.C. Press Council’s main
purpose is to consider complaints
about the press that have not been
resolved between complainants
and the newspapers involved.

The council is pledged to main-
tain press freedom and serve as a
medium of understanding between
the press and the public.

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