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eye WEEKLY                                            September 1 1994
Toronto's arts newspaper                      .....free every Thursday
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MEDIA HIT LIST                                          MEDIA HIT LIST

                             TATTLE TALES

                                  by
                               GREG BOYD

This week/
Last week

1/2	THE WAY THINGS WORK

Spooks: Former Tory minister's aide admits leaking documents that 
put The Sun onto alleged CSIS informer/Heritage Front elf Grant 
Bristow.

2/3	SAFETY FIRST

Pax Americana: Fidel Castro orders Cubans not to put kids on flimsy, 
Florida-bound rafts, unless they are equipped with seatbelts and air 
bags.

3/5	FUN AND NAMES

Sporting lives: Commonwealth Games in Victoria end with new 
records in shooting (steroids) and the 1,600-metre run for political 
asylum. 

4/	CROOKED OR STUPID?

Civics: Currently unindicted Metro Chair Alan Tonks finally assays an 
explanation of his attendance at a secret meeting of soon-to-be-
convicted bribe givers and takers. Some councilors accept Tonks' 
innocence and blame the media. Others accept the media's 
cognizance and blame Tonks. Tonks blames everybody.

5/ SERVICE ECONOMY, MY BUTT

Strikes: You can't take a cab, there's no baseball and now it looks 
like beer store employees will walk off the job just in time for the 
Labor Day weekend. Now that's what I call a service economy.

6/3	PRINCIPLE PLAYERS

Kops: Much ado about 14-year Metro police veteran Constable Carol 
Banks, who resigns and tells off the Metro Police Services Board for 
mistreating kops. Her decision is apparently a matter of principle, 
and nothing to do with moving to Australia to join her fiance.

7/7	BOXING DANIEL

Qu�lection: The leaders' debate ends without, that's right, a 
knockout blow.

8/	POWER OF THE PRESS

Slicks: The Globe's Report On Business Magazine lands Cott Corp. 
president and acknowledged bafflegab master Heather Reisman on 
the cover. Four days later she's replaced by R.O.B. competitor 
Canadian Business' recent cover boy, Dave "Gimme that barbecue 
sauce" Nichol.

9/	COLUMNIST TRIUMPHS AGAIN

Headlines: "Legless Metro man swims to triumph," declares the Star. 
Odd, I didn't know Burrill had taken up swimming.

10/3	TRICKY RICKY

Politeness: Doddering Cancon fixture and official Globe Trotskyite 
Rick Salutin takes on this List and eye, breaking his own record for 
misquotes and dumb mistakes per line. What the hell is an "alternate 
weekly," anyway?


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