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_As of this month I am in

the community newspaper »

business and, for me, it’s

the unfolding of an old.
dream. In addition to my:
association with the North
Shore News, I’m teamed wu
with Ralph Vipond of Powell
River and we’ll be turning
out the. Nanaimo Times. Pll
let you know how it goes.

As some may remember, I

used to do the National News ©

for the CBC and, frankly, it .
was a disturbing experience.
Before that, I was a foreign
correspondent for Holy.
‘Mother  -Corporation and,
going back still further, I
covered.--Ottawa for the
Vancouver Sun. It was an
interesting experience which —
got me to every province and
across the Arctic from
Pangnirtung to Tuktoyaktuk.
Overseas, I was jailed in East
Berlin when the Wall went
up, was shot at in Algeria,
Cyprus, and South Arabia,
and generally had ar ea 1
funtime of it. Like so
many people working in Big
Media, however, I found
‘myself more and more asking
what the point of it was. On
the National News, for.
example, I used to end by
saying ‘‘...and that’s the
news’’ but, to myself, I often
added ‘“‘It is like hell.”’

You begin to realize that
you are dealing in cliches,
superficialities, and
second burps because there
is no time for anything else
and sometimes you wonder if
it wouldn’t be better to say
nothing rather than give
dangerous _over-simpli ca-
tions.

‘Even more alarming is the |
realization’ that newsmen
usually have only a vague

idea of what’s happening. I
can recall that CBC deskmen.

used to phone me in various tr

| hot spots shouting **What’s
going on?’’ to which I would

-reply ‘‘How would I know? . |

Tm too busy covering the
crisis!”’

said
With develop-—
ments already under consid-

‘difficult to justify,”’
Bradbury.

eration, he claimed, the
population will increase from

40,000 to 70,000 within the -

next few years—with only
the: Lions Gate

providing access.

Bridge

Sa Sr

page 2 - July 20, 1977 - North Shore News _

‘news, anyway? Of all ‘the
things happening in the
world today, are we really
choosing the most impor-
tant? Is is good use of public
money to send a CBC crew
halfway round the world to
tell Canadians, in a srossly
over-simplified manner, that
some people are killing one
another?’’.

I remember a psychiatrist
asking me one time, when I
was on the National News, if
I knew what I was doing.

“Certainly not,’’ I said.
**Do you know?’’.

“y think you’re reassuring
people,’ he said, ‘‘that

others have had a worse day 1,

‘than they have. No matter

how bad the day has been, |
your viewers know others are.
infinitely worse off and this.

makes them feel better.
However, just in case the
catalogue of horrors begins
to make them nervous,: you
end on an upbeat which tells
us, ‘Don’t worry. You'll be

all right!’ Then you smile -

and we all go to bed and -
sleep soundly.”'

-There’s a iot. of. truth in
that analysis and it. occurs to

.

listening to ratepayers. He
called for a public meeting
August 10 at which Upper
Levels development - and
‘planning could be aired
thoroughly, but council voted
against that date and decided

instead to hold the meeting -

“within the first 10 days of
September’? when = § more
people would be able to.
attend after returning from
‘vacation.

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There i is more truth to that .
remark than many news
neople would like to- admit,
and ‘eventually, you begin —
asking yourself,

news is as much.a security
. blanket..as an information

“What is. occurs to me that it realiy

- should” be ‘called ‘the Olds
“rather

because it is a repetition of.
the same old stories over and |

thing is really new, it is
| unlikely to appear

That last remark won’t win
if. Holy Mother ever invites |

to read a newscast again, I
think I'll begin by saying

_ new interest; new space-age |

‘excitine 2 and: ‘s¥eofnst: place to

Mayor Peter Jones denied
thet council had not ‘been

she needed more time to

Tuesday to three other
‘heroin charges which were

| . North ‘Vancouver provincial .
. court.

|. of July 17 stated that. Mike
_ Van Unen and two
ers were “Infared” In an

| should have read that Van”
’ ‘Unen and passengers wore’

a a ee Sr

me that mass - circulation

service. As a matter of fact, it .

than ‘the: News

“new nam

over again with new names
inserted. In fact, if some-

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recognize it or understand it.

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people where they live; it 1s .
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can double-check it. Most
important of all, the com-
munity: newspaper is the
medium for local dialogue
which affects people’s lives.
by making the community a’
better place to live; which

helps to give people a voice

an identity at a time
when the Mass _ Society
threatens to grind them.
down. For all these reasons -
_ and probably more - there is
an almost explosive -new
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work ‘and 1 look forward
keenly to iis’ nicw experi-
ence.

On with the new, out with.
‘the Olds!

was to introduce a summary
of the wiretap evidence and
the circumstances leadiny to
Heidi’s arrest and subse-
quent charges which were.
laid on May 26th.

Judge Mortison” said that

thoroughly research what
types of evidence may be
entered after an accused has
pled guilty.

Heidi also pled guilty

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