Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 5, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba I 4 a Aiu free july 199 6977044 editorials sheltered magazines a world Trade organization ruling threatening Canada Magazine Industry raises a Sophie Al problem and a tougher practical problem for the Chretien the to ruled last week that measures aimed at preventing american publications from skimming advertising Revenue from Canadian magazines were illegal under world trading these measures included a ban on the Sale of american produced magazines with Canadian known in the Trade As split run publications an 80 per cent excise tax on advertising Revenue earned by american pub a customs and a postal subsidy for Canadian including Reform party Leader Preston have argued the Magazine Industry is like any other and should not be sheltered from such As time Magazine or sports in doing Manning and others ignore the important role magazines play in the dissemination of information and they also Overlook the simple fact notwithstanding the to Canadian and american magazines Are not competing on an even playing publishers of american magazines Are Able to Cater to the american Market knowing there is a sizable interest for their publications in that Means americans can More than recover the Cost of production from their vast Home Market and then effectively dump extra copies of the product in having off a certain amount of Domestic advertising in the publishers of magazines catering to the Canadian Market do not enjoy the same opportunities in the United states As a Are not Able to compete with the americans on an even playing the Issue then is not whether to support Canadian magazines but Canada could have ignored the finding and allowed which lodged the original to retaliate by imposing tariffs on Canadian exports of similar but Ottawa ruled that out saying it will comply with the to another option would be to negotiate a settlement with the americans that maintains Many of the current measures with minor that would seem unlikely in the Wake of the Victory at the other alternatives under consideration All appear to provide subsidies to publishers or that will carry a not Only to the Federal Treasury and the but also in terms of publishers Independence from the Only question now is How much Are canadians willing to pay guiding stars it would not be Correct to say that the deaths of Jimmy Stewart and Robert Mitchum within Days of each other this week marked the end of an the age that threw those two men onto the world stage ended Long even before 1967s so called summer of love jerked our society onto a Dif Ferent a track that we have been travelling Ever those deaths might be seen As a Symbol of the Power of every age creates its own myth and Robert Mitchum and James Stewart were integral parts of they were the and Star was designation enough it would be the lesser lights of a later time who would need to be packaged As super they were packaged of products of the Hollywood Star but the machine that created them could not contain them and they endured Long after it had fallen into they were larger than icons who represented the mythology of their the Virtues that people wanted to see in but they were very Dif Ferent icons Mitchum Maverick both physical and with its undercurrent of rebel lion stewarts with his honest simplicity covering the Core of they had their their weaknesses and their too when they were at they were very human indeed but at the height of their careers those vices were carefully hidden away and even when they became they could not detract from the truth that people believed and still believe they saw on the it was the Virtues that they embodied so perfectly that made them stars and which we celebrate in them still the world has changed a great Deal since these men burst upon the movie and we have gone a Long Way in directions that could not even have been imagined but they Are still Able to draw into their their deaths Are not so much a sign of an ending As a Symbol of Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free press set 1872 Winnipeg Tribune get 1990 Rudy email Nicholas Brian Cole editorial Page editor directors Harry Brown circulation sales and marketing Laurie Verne Kalichuk human resources Glenn Williams finance and administration 1917 Winnipeg free a division of Gitig Assn Canada limited published seven Days 9 week at 1356 Mountain Manitoba re pm a member Al the wit que press cd until vol 125 no 179 widening the narrow View i am tempted to Call this column the trouble with journalists but that would be an extremely negative and unfair Way of making my the idea for this column was generated by the decision of Jim our features editor and for Merly an editorial to leave the newspaper and pursue his Fortune As a consultant to Busi Ness and freelance Carr was plucked from his seat in the Manitoba legislature by former editorial Page editor John his Job was to forget being a Liberal and to turn a Knack for partisan speeches into newspaper an editorial writer anonymously reflects on Public questions with a View that belongs not to him or but to the news paper As a the editorial Page has a collective and Collegia Respo Sibil the writer is never asked to propound an opinion with which he or she but his or her opinion May Well be modified by discussion among Peers or with those he or she reports the Job requires both subtlety and it has facets in common with news reporting facts must be context must be respected but it is also quite Dif Nicholas Hirst it is the newsroom Job to which no journalists Are most commonly hired and where they have the most Many avenues of Public and private life require the speaking and writing of Clear it is not a skill Over which journalists have a monopoly or in which people trained As journalists always the positive Way of writing the idea behind this column is to say that people with experience out Side journalism can bring a new Way of looking at what newspapers do which can be both refreshing and the negative Way is to say that the trouble with journalists and journalism is that people trained As journalists bring too narrow a perspective to what they i do not believe that is a disease which afflicts but it is always Worth looking at what we do from the position of an outsider and there is no bet Ter Way of using an outsider than to bring him or her All professions and crafts have characteristics that can make them look inward rather than lawyers and accountants All have rules and at their the professions regulate themselves at worst they seem like elite groups preventing those not admitted to their Priesthood from having any control Over what they journalists work hours that Are different from most their encounters with the forces of authority Hap pen in a Way that makes them if not and their training defines stones in a Way that highlights things that went wrong rather than everyday experiences that go the result can be newspapers instead of reflecting com Are seen by communities As attacking i is not such a our journalism is balanced by constant Contact with the communities we we open our pages to and from time to we take on people like Jim it is in this spirit that we accepted a proposal from Mike Maunder and Virginia Maracle to look at the Workings of the inner Maunder has worked As a journalist for news but Virginia Maracle has both bring a perspective that is closer to the communities they Are writing about than Many journalists would that not to say journalists cannot get they but there is always a balance that is needed Between subjective and objective and it is a balance that All writers can find which brings me Back to Jim whose voice As features Edi Tor has been heard particularly on sunday in the Magazine Sec Tion which has changed and grown Over the past six he came from outside the world of but he leaves hav ing become a journalist he will be replaced by Buzz cur now assistant City who is steeped in the practice of the like he will never for get that he is working and bringing up his family in the same Community that his feature pages will Jim Carr will leave us As Fea Tures editor at the end of next Nicholas Hirst is editor of the free his column appears on Venus and washing up reports out of the United states say that 65 per cent of men claim the Laun dry and dusting Are split 5050 while 47 per cent of women have you Ever stopped to think about who does what around the House these Days and just How Little things have changed no doubt men do More than they once How could it be otherwise now that women Fol Low careers and justly demand that husbands pull their weight around the House household chores in the families i know Best Are divided i suspect they will be As Long As women Are different from dont men do most of the Dri ving when the whole family is in the car and much less of the Dri ving when the kids Are being ried from one place to another when the kids pile into the car to head out for dinner or to the dad gets behind the wheel nine times out of but if its pick ing up Junior from the piano Les then All of a sudden dad is less interested and mom is less the cooking is a shared More so than it once but its the Man who lights the Barbecue and Cooks the the woman May Start the Gas machine if the Man int Only to satisfy the charcoal fix of the for her own if feeding the kids want part of she would just As Happy to open a can of tuna fish or make a grilled cheese if left to her own apples and crackers do the trick the Day today task of feeding the family is More a shared responsibility today than it was when our fathers tottered around in the women make the pasts sauces men Fry the eggs she Graves Rte and Sweet he craves Salty and on the other is mostly a female men bake but women bake that is because baking requires patience and men dont have much of the Quick Fry is More satisfying than watching dough All in women Are More Apt to deprive if there Are she is the one who will do laundry is something men cant escape every once in awhile but the women do it far More he will shove the stuff in the Washer or dryer but he rarely Irons his own shirts and even less often will fold folding is definitely men will vacuum because a vacuum cleaner is a dusting comes less Telephone arranging for the kids is strictly a female if the children have a Day off school and somebody has to look after the woman will get men Are Good at outdoor work like cutting the Lawn on the phone and find a Friend or a she also arranges the babysitters on a saturday night More often than the husband feels guilty that she does All the arranging and offers to pick up the phone now and again but she is definitely better at he men Are not Good at gift buy if a Man is stuck with figuring out what a seven year old wants for his or what is appropriate for a twentieth wedding the Odds Are huge that whatever he buys will be returned within the woman knows better just men Are Good at outdoor they like to Cut the any thing that has something to do with an internal combustion engine is mostly a male they love the smell of men will Putter in the tickling the Tomato even pulling out the occasional it is and the chances Are that Garden work will produce dirt under the Fin men like dirt women dont like women dont like to Cut the Lawn and use traditional avoid Ance techniques if he is out of town or otherwise men line up in the liquor store to buy the men take out the All of these observations can be contradicted by individual generally speak in spite of All the changes to the Way in which society views the role of men and and taking into consideration the Many advances we have made towards Equality for there still Are traditional roles to which most of us changing those habits will take not Jim pm is the free press Fea Tures his column appears ;