4 ~ Sunday, January 24, 1988 — North Shore News GRAPEVINE BDearter Ttary Fetes sar Oy husband and | eres been vanihonindg on etgwan ated hone met ane been saan ath a young Cougie path of aterm are pares ane Bop P “wearers” CF your internals ance temmed canvas hal bam stesso “7 Obtaining 2. your nals tor mysell ag weit as my husbandt : Sane erely, Barbara F. (Tacoma WA) Dear Sur Feh?t 1987 Kindy send ia me yr Catalonia: of ciotting and hats Recently inet pergie wn ene atranine ihe rests A larly tad a paw ot Clete, atatt kia alec, Very truly yours Mrs. Maurice B. (Hancesonviie NC d NEW YEAR BLOW-OUT Used car warranties available on most . © stricly personal ® . ne poscnncene SO NHAT?..F ern the cre evcomect andiess tt wtucn beth theres asttars used car inventory eaten Lette that les, © ant rs B got thew mail Dg ENIGEMLAT On iyen ther re algramnntenud Hats AND THAT THE MATS WERE AKQUT sae s . sas a UR YEARS CADE I THINK it is a perfectly legitimate question for John (in arn dotaitee) ty make clatter atust lasts and perant that ae sure 4 Turner to be asked about his boozing habits. He has, of made in Conan At course, a perfect right to say: Gimme a break! Or: Drop dead. Or to counter-thrust: Have you’stopped beating your Drop in, Phone or Write husband? . Titey Cuioties, with tne, Recret Dockets and the Barbara Tilley The idea that the question was sprung on him by surprise during a TV interview, and therefore isn’t fair, carries no serious weight. Any politician is fair game. An inter- view with a political leader is sup- posed to be a bear-pit session, otherwise it would be a feature on the back pages. Reporters are supposed to ask tough questions. At least they are in a grown-up society, as far as ! am concerned. J ournalists are supposed to be able to take it as well as dish it cut, you But if a reporter asks 2 a question that is rude, ignorant, stupid, fac- etious, disgusting, inappropriate, obscene or ill-informed (which is frequently the case), the person be- ing interviewed, whether Leader of the Opposition or a lesser suppli- cant at the altar of publicity, has a perfect right to suggest stuffing it. Journalists are supposed to be able to take it as well as dish it out, you sce. But the main point is, we aren't supposed to be too cute and cosy with the powers that be. * When media and politicians get ia bed together (figuratively speak- ing), the door closes for the public. The two democractic functions of reporting and lawmaking are meant to be antagonistic. So J ad- mire the spirit of the interviewer who hit Turner with the question. If Turner in fact was tricked despite his better judgment into giving a slightly forthright answer, then it doesn’t say much for his better judgment. He could, after all, have merely looked dignified. Or outraged. He could have got up and walked away, saying: Forget it, kid. Or, better yet: Talk to my lawyer i in the morning. If he decided to level with the masses about the fact that he likes a good party in the hope that we’d view him as more human, less aloof, then he succeeded. Except that I didn’t think of him as being all that aloof to begin with. . Has there been a diminution of his stature in my mind’s eye as a result of him being asked are you a problem drinker and him answer- ing ‘‘yeah,’’ then giving whatever limp rationalization he gave, but basically conceding the point? Like, sure, ['m a boozehead, but I get the job done okay, ch? That’s what. he sounded like. He was on the defensive, like a battered pug. This is in part a matter of the Canadian media aping the American media, as usual. There’s a streetfighting mood as clections get underway both here and south of the border. Us press types are sharpening our claws. If the idea was, legitimately if impolitely, to flush some aspect of Turner’s character into the open, it succeeded. Only it was an aspect of character that has nothing to do with boozing or enjoying partics. It was a question of mantiness, almost. Can you imagine John Dicfen- ' ‘bakér dealing with a question like that? His jowls would wobble and his eyebrows would zoom upwards and he would skewer the reporter who dared utter such a question with a verbal Jance, Jeaving them impaled on the floor, as well as no doubt being fired the next morn- ing. . . Can you imagine such a questicn being put to Lester Pearson? OF course not. The whole press gallery would have blushed with shame and the offender would have been hauled away by his or her peers, and not just dismissed but banish- ed no doubt from the press club itself. We come to Pierre Trudeau, Pi- ty the poor journalist who'd dared to put such a question to him! They would have been intellectu- ally gutted on the spot. And only fired later, quictly. i don’t dare predict what Joe Clark would have done with such an inquiry, but the lady reporter who asked the question would have looked like a bully, stomping on poor Joe like that. Come on, ' we'd think, leave him alone! He can't help it! He was born that way! Maybe Turner is still atoning for patting lona’s bum. I dunno. ! just wish he hadn’t taken it like one more spear. I think the guy might be burned out. 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