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eye WEEKLY                                           September 29 1994
Toronto's arts newspaper                      .....free every Thursday
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MEDIA HIT LIST                                          MEDIA HIT LIST

                             FIRING BLANCS

                                  by
                               GREG BOYD

ranking
this wk/last wk

1/3 SHOOTING GALLERY

PAX AMERICANA: Marines enforce their benevolent occupation of 
Haiti by shooting a few soldiers off camera in Cap-Haitien. 
Residents commence public beatings of junta enforcers.

2/ GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE

CUT IT OUT: Liberal government begins manoeuvring for a possible 
Ralph Kleinian series of cuts to social programs and the public 
service. Early leaks play up the plans to assist kids living in poverty, 
simultaneous with the report released by the not at all politically 
affiliated Canadian Institute of Child Health, which states that 
Canada's child poverty rate is alarmingly high.

3/ COLOR BAR

JUICE: The trial of O.J. Simpson gets underway with media-saturated 
jury selection in a Los Angeles courtroom. Polls still show public 
opinions on guilt split on racial lines.

4/11	LAST CHANCE

QUELECTION: Premier Parizeau unveils his new cabinet, plus a second 
tier of regional mini-ministers responsible for persuading citizens 
to vote for independence by bribing them with the last of Ottawa's 
largess.

5/3 OVERTIME RULES

GREED: Weeks after the strike-induced collapse of baseball, 
professional hockey dallies with a similar fate.

6/2 PEOPLE KILL GUNS

GUNS: Foes of gun control rally in Ottawa and wave long sticks at 
MPs. 

7/ TRY THROWING IN ONE OF THOSE MACLEAN'S ALARM CLOCKS

NDP-BASHING: Much hay made with Ontario government proposal for 
a new investment agency, seats on whose board would go for a cool 
$250,000. Despite the lure of access to upper level industrial policy 
wonks and a free laptop computer, little interest is expressed.

8/ HUGGY BEAR

MOSCOW CIRCUS: Russian figurehead Boris Yeltsin hits America with 
his crowd-pleasing impersonation of leader of a world power. TV 
networks politely keep the cameras rolling. 

9/ RATS

PLAGUE: The Black Death breaks out in India with somewhere 
between 60 and 300 cases in Surat. Public health officials calm the 
masses by describing the plague-like disease as a particularly 
virulent strain of yuppie flu.

10/ MIDDLE KINGDOM IN PERIL!

NO NEWS: Editorial staff at The Globe approach a Friday night strike 
deadline.


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