The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

r 4 weekender june 31995 stu o send your letters to the editor to 9 heritage rd markham l3p 1m3 or ax them to 2941538 voice concerns about bernardo coverage the bernardo case is a text book case of abuse by the media the exploitation of this case by the major networks and newspapers is deplorable on a number of fronts not the least of which is concern for the vic tims families while there is always a mor bid fascination in cases such as this for many people the publics right to know has been used as a smokescreen for pure sensationalism what makes this case any different from the dozens of murder cases that occur each year is that it is tailormade for media exploitation paul bernardo is the boy next door kristen french and leslie mahaffy are your daughters would there be multipage pullout sections in the papers panel discussions andrew mair on radio and 10minute news segments on television if bernardo was a vagrant or if the victims were runaways the horrific nature of these crimes is not to be minimized but what makes them differ ent from other equally heinous acts is that they hap pened in a white middle class community the media has worked this for all its worth it could hap pen here is the message it could happen to you your neighbors and your friends are the fears the media is using to sell papers and air- time the incident that sparked the media rush in this case occurred when the french family appeared on television pleading for the safe return of their daughter this was what the media refers to as good copy the image of kristen a beautiful popular charis matic girl from a good family added a further ingredient to the media stew and from that point once the urge to sensationalize the events of the case became too powerful all the media outlets began to play the game of trying to catch up with the competi tion searching for new angles to the story and gath ering any and all information to makeup a headline or a adam by brian basset hiimowmg axtr your summer nwia cam k- apeluewhatvg6whats1harrfhcw neesaxdrttfjmkners mich counter me i5umoie ftet use w wei s at home them at school s umonemfctxnt ovmke hemes jaw a neeo sound bite the melee that resulted from the publication ban on evidence only added fuel to fire the media then took the case to another level by labeling it a freedom of the press issue and now that the details of the case are coming out the media circus that has result ed fall on the facts like car rion this case is setting a dan gerous precedent the best thing we can do is to not feed the media frenzy by voicing our disapproval at the way such incidents are covered the tribune weekender edition a metroland community newspaper patricupappas publisher jo ann stevenson edilorinchlel andrew mair general managereditor debraweixer director of advertising barry goodyear director of distribution vivian 0 neil business manager pamela nichols operations manager stoirrrvntf all enquiries 6402 100 fax 6405477 6244 main st stouffviue ont- l4aie2 uxbripcb all enquiries 8520741 fax 8529741 88 brock st w uxbridge ont l8p1p4 the tribune published every wednesday and saturday is one of the metroland printing pub lishing and distributing group of suburban newspapers which includes markham econo mist and sun ajax pickering news advertiser auroranewmarket era banner barrie advance brampton guardian burlington post cityparent collingwood connection etobicoke guardian georgetown independentacton free press kingston this week lindsay this week milton canadian champion misissauga news northumberland news north york mirror oakville beaver orillia today oshawa-whitby- claringlon this week peterborough this week richmond hillthorahiuvaughan liber al scarborough mirror todays seniors con tents not to bo reproduced without written per mission from the publisher permit 1247 need a music identikit when youre 35 something always happens to the music a canadian musician lyricist and composer by the name of gene lees wrote those words and if like this scribbler you are over the age of 35 then you know only too well whereof mister lees speaks when my father was 35 a hill billy truck driver from tennessee was zooming up the music charts i loved elvis my father feared id lost my mind but then when his dad was middleaged weird aberrations with names like rudy vallee and ethel merman were turning teenage heads with their songs twas ever thus no doubt when romeo was serenading juliet some venetian on a nearby bal cony was yelling willya cut out the racket take my son please he is 20 and he listens toi dont know what he listens to the sounds that rattle our fine china and shiver the timbers of our house are like nothing i have heard on this earth and ive attended a bagpipe recital if i had to categorize his music id call it twofifths heavy machinery onefifth fingernails on a blackboard and twofifths tomcat in heat i know i knowi sound just like my father my grandfather and juliets next door neighbor how about you are you bewil dered by the musical sounds you hear these days panic not ive been doing some research into the whole subject of modern pop music just let me slip out of these industrialstrength ear- muffs and 111 tell you all about it first off 111 assume that like me you have no trouble differen tiating among country and west ern rock and roll and easy listen ing music such rudimentary knowledge was good enough to carry you through the 50s 60s 70s and 80s but it wont help you arthur black nowadays nope to navigate the pop world of the 90s you need the basic black musical identik it does the noise you hear seem to involve a lot of accordions plus a washboard or two then chances are youre hearing zyde- oo a form of music spawned in cajun country or perhaps youre listening to what seems to be a polka with rabies thats what they call banda kind of- sounds like canadian brass meets lawrence welk and everybody gets drunk on cheap red wine so what is that earsplitting jabberwocky oozing out from under my sons bedroom door none of the above as near as i can decipher the stuff he listens to is called club music thats the umbrella name club subdi vides into various schools known as techno jungle rave dub tribal and ambient how do you tell if what you hear is club music well its easy if you happen to have access to a passkey to the national research council instrumenta tion laboratory club music is identifiable by the hundreds of beats per minute it fills thats how you can tell club music if you lay your hands on an oscilloscope but i have a sim pler rule of thumb for the instru- mentally challenged if the music sounds like a migraine feels its club you have any thoughts on mod ern musicdrop me a line please dont try to call i cant hear the telephone