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. Wednesday, March 13, 1985 - North Share News

Wimp media have

by Doug Collins

ne of the troubles with Canada, said the
pompous writer (me),is that the mainstream
media ain’t much good. What you get is
warmed-over liberalism. The media have no balls.

consider what we have
here in the True North.

we have the Globe &
Mail. It gives us the news as
, ees it, but is written by
servants for civil ser-
. Also, it has the most
poriné columnists in cre-
atio™ Readers of the Globe
don’t Need sleeping pills.
phe only difference be-

eet it and the other Ca-
nadia" bigsy — the Toronto

“ot is that the Star is a
pigg”” biggie. It was once a
r quie~dazzie, Anglo-

jenied newspaper. But

peland Honderich changed

civil
yants

all that. He turned it into an
all-things-to-all-men thing
that’s run by a trembling
committee.

Locally, we have the
Morning Wimp and the
Vancouver Moon, and you
don’t need me to tell you
about them. Stanley Burke is
convinced they are run by
little nests of Reds. 1 prefer
to think their staffers are all
in training for the pulpit.
With the exception of Les

Bewley, their writers emit
only pious platitudes or
‘damn the government"
garbage.

Things are no better on
the magazine front (and we
won't even discuss televi-
sion). Maclean's Magazine is
now an abject copy of Time
Magazine, but without
Time's resources. Barbara
Amiel is a shining light, but
she appears only once a
month. Maclean's is so
gutless it wouldn't even ac-
cept an interesting ad from
the Pro-Life people. No one
must be offended.

Maciean’s is the CBC in
print.

But courage, mes enfants.
Relief appears in the form of
@ magazine edited by Peter
Worthington, one of this
country’ bravest souls.

The magazine is called In-
fluence.

It has, apparently, existed

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for some time as a give-
away, but [I hadn’: heard of
it until Worthington asked
me {to write one of: my
mutinous pieces for it.: My
own one-occasion invalve-
ment apart, though, be
assured that Influence
(which you must now’ pay
for if you want it) is worth
reading.

It fills the media gap. It is
not mamby-pamby. It is of
the right-ish bent. It has
plenty to say.

In his first column: as
editor, Worthington deals
with what the media are do-
ing in today’s Canada, and
comments, inter alia:

“How often do the media
point out that of the 180 or
so states in the world, only
18 have maximum civil liber-
ties and political rights —
and not one of these is a so-
cialist state? On the other
hand, of the 14 ‘‘least’’ free,
or most oppressive, regimes,
all call themselves socialist.
That’s got to tell you some-
thing, but barely a comment
from the media.’”

Instead of reflecting reali-
ty, he says, the media try to
change reality. They present

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a world colored by their own
prejudices, and in doing so
create a new .aythology that
becomes conventional
wisdom. Thus:

“Black majority rule is
invariably presented as the
goal in discussions of South
Africa — which preoccupies
our media more than, say,
repressive regimes elsewhere.

“The reality is that there
is NO black ‘majority’ rule
on the continent of Africa —
just an abundance of black
‘minority’ rule. If a member
of the wrong tribe has polit-

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we ay
fatal. Democracy is alien.’

This magazine has fun, fi-
nance, Andy Donato the
great cartoonist, Peter
Brimelow, Bill Buckley,
McKenzie Porter, Simma
Holt and many others.

Get it. Or forever hold
your peace about the way
things are with the media. If
you can't find it, write to
Influence, 250 The
Esplanade, Toronto. Ont.
MSA 132. Fourteen bucks a
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