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packs: trying to: seover the
news:.
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ytd «with
knobs on, when. it comes to
Opinion - ‘ittiin the “Van-
couver media. establishment,
with its headquarters in ‘the
press club - on’ Granville
Street opposite the Pacific
Press building. There is a
bréathtaking unity of
thought. ~

And I guess it's because
the boys and the girls hang
around in a gang downtown,
agreeing with one another.

Case im point: Western
separatism as a story.
' Every single editorial or

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Yet judging from the polls
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those’ 1,200 to 1,500 péople
who showed up in Van-
couver recently to cheef
Elmer Knutson, president of
the Western . Federation,
were; if nothing else, British
Columbians.

-It: has. often been
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of the ownership of
Canadian newspapers would
sooner or later lead to rigid
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the “free ’; Some. of
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Southam’Press; the national
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_ If thé ideal of a free press
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media, as one, shrinks away -

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‘although obviously it poses
more paradoxes than -
anything else. It ultimately ©
holds out the chance for -
Western Canadians to:regain
the political © and. -legal.
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will have lost if Tradeau’s
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