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Proceeds to go to start a fund for nd 'Murphy, Mary Vickery, Hazel McCrea, Lillian Grace Photo Murphy and Irma Raymer. Front, Vickery, Olive Bond and Jean Martyn. courtesy of Mrs. Grace Beacock. values 25c. and 35c. Clearing price 15¢c. yard. - F.W. McIntyre. : ~ The young people of the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches are arranging a series of twelve talent entertainments. It is expected that a fee of 10c. -will be charged for adults and 5c. for children at each building a skating rink or for some similar object. (Turn to page 6) A CRUEL MEDIA As I write this there are faint rumblings out of Ottawa that Pierre Trudeau may not wait until late spring or summer to call a federal election. Canadians will go to this polls this year and the odds-on-betting had been for a warm weather election. Now, however, there has been a suggestion that Trudeau may strike while the iron is hot. : A recent poll, for example, showed the Tories slipping a few points at the expense of Liberal gains. Industry minister Jack Horner has been making headlines over new trade and commerce arrangements with China, and Joe Clark has just completed an international tour that may very well have a negative effect on voters' perceptions of Mr. Clark as a national leader. B While Clark's trip was designed to give international leaders a look at the man who could be Canada's next Prime Minister, reporters from this country who went along for the ride had a field day with stories about a series of snags and bumblings along the way. The stories coming back to Canada concentrated on missed air-line connections and lost baggage which led to the implication that if Clark can't keep track of his suitcase, how can he possibly govern the country. It was most unfair. It wasn't Clark's fault the luggage went astray, it was the fault of some white-knuckle airline that flies the skies of southeast Asia. Actually, Clark should be commended for his courage in daring to take a commercial flight in that part of the world, and the reporters should have been thanking their lucky stars it was only their luggage that went missing. - If nothing else, Clark probably learned on his inter- national junket just how cruel and unfair the media can be to a politician. When media sharks latch onto a seemingly insignificant incident or event (such as lost luggage) it can have distastrous effects on a politician's image and chances at election. I often recall that brutal picture of former Tory leader Robert Stanfield during a federal campaign a few years ago that showed him bobbling a football. That photo depicted Stanfield as a hopeless bumbler, with the implication that a man who can't catch a football, certainly can't govern the country. The picture ran on the front page of just about every newspaper in the country, and contrasted sharply with images of Pierre Trudeau the athlete doing back flips off a diving board, jogging around the grounds of 24 Sussex in Ottawa, or gliding gracefully down the ski slopes of Aspen" or Whistler Mountain. What the Canadian people didn't know as they looked at that horrid picture of Stanfield is that he had been playing catch football for several minutes and had easily made several catches as the press photographers snapped away. I often wonder if Robert Stanfield might have become Prime Minister if the football picture that made the front pages had shown him making a graceful over-the-shoulder catch, rather that the infamous bobble. Joe Clark is running into the same problems. It is little wonder that the relationship between the press and politicians is generally filled with mutual suspicion and sometimes outright hatred. While I firmly believe that the natural relationship between a reporter and a politician should be an adversary one, and reporters must take precautions not to get co-opted by politicians, I also believe the media have a crucial responsibility to be completely fair and representative in their coverage of politicians and political events. To abdicate this responsibility for the sake of an "interesting photo" or a snappy headline, or a story that exploits an insignificant event of marginal news- worthiness is a pit-fall that reporters and editors can very easily fall into. The reasons are not necessarily deliberately malicious, or sparked by personal hatred on the part of a reporter or "editor for an individual politician, although that is some- times the case. Rather, the pitfalls sometimes arise out of sheer laziness on the part of the reporter. In the case of Mr. Clark's luggage problems, for example, it is easier to write a story about bungled travel arrangements, adding colour- ful information like Clark not having shaving gear or a fresh change of shirt than it is dig for the true significance of a Canadian opposition leader discussing world events with influential international leaders of state. It happens, and it shouldn't if the media are doing their job properly. As leader of the opposition Joe Clark has not fought an election, and with one looming on the not-so-distant horizon, it will be interesting to see what kind of media treatment he gets. The roughest knock that Clark has had in his brief period as leader has been the 'Joe Who?" label, and Liberal politicians take absolute delight in perpetuating this rather unfair tag. It is also grist for the pens of editorial cartoonists. My guess is that when the campaign rolls into high gear, Clark will get his share of unfair knocks from the media, if the coverage of his recent foray into international PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., January 24, 1979 -- 5 letters Must do something Dear Sir: I am in full agreement with Mr. Dean Kelly when he stated in his recent letter in our Port Perry Star.(Enough is Enough). He says he was appalled at the increases in wages of the Durham Board of Education. He also urged all tax payers to speak up and end this never ending spending of our money. I hear lots of grumbling but not one person making the smallest move to up-hold Mr. Kelly and at least try to do something about it. Well, Sir, here is one other person who is in full agree- ment with you. Not only Topless. Dear Sir: Do Pentecostal Pastors frequent bars where they may be offended by bare- breasted waitresses? If not, why are MacLean and Batten so alarmed? Or do they just enjoy ordering other people's lives? If they were Christians their concern would be for the women who may be forced to humiliate them- selves by working half-naked in order toearna living. And if they need support of scrip- ture, how about "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of by John B. McClelland [SREY about the Durham Board of Education getting a healthy raise, but our Durham Councillors. Some have not only pay for acting as Coun- cillors but good wages from other sources as well. The Government keeps telling us mere peasants we must tighten our belts. Well when are these fat cats going to buckle up and tighten theirs? Well, we the people voted these people in and we the people can just as easily vote them out. In these hard times of unemployment, people are finding out just how hard it is (Turn to page 6) the least of these my brethe- ren ye have done it unto me'? On the other hand people who want to entertain and be entertained this way should be heard. Have there been many letters to the Star demanding topless wait- resses? Or advertisements seeking work as topless wait- resses? Who'll take up the pastors' challenge to come out of the closet? Bill Graham Greenbank affairs is any indication. As for Trudeau, his relationship with the media has gone from sweet to very sour and he has been called everything from an arrogant SOB to a philosopher-king to a fanatical Marxist. But nobody, to my knowledge, anyway, has every called him Pierre Who? PUFFING The Durham Region Lung Association has declared today (January 24) Weedless Wednesday, in the hopes that those of us who still use cigarettes will put them away at least for this one day. Well, I'll go along with that. In fact, I'll go along with just about anything to kick the habit. My efforts in recent months have been unqualified failures, despite the fact I once quit for six months. Anyway, I understand that non-smokers in the adult population now make up a majority. 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