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eye WEEKLY                                              August 25 1994
Toronto's arts newspaper                      .....free every Thursday
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MEDIA HIT LIST                                          MEDIA HIT LIST

                               SPY HIGH

                                  by
                               GREG BOYD

Rating:
this/last week                               

1/	WATCHING THE DETECTIVES

Spooks: After The Sun reveals that a senior Heritage Front thug was 
a CSIS informant, The Star responds with a story positing that, 
since the CBC's 5th Estate was doing a documentary on the Front, 
this means CSIS was watching the CBC. As Globe TV writer Liam 
Lacey points out, at least someone is.

2/2	MANIFESTLY DESTINED

Pax Americana: U.S. patrols begin turning away or interning Cuban 
refugees. Mexico's government for life wins what appears to be, to 
the disappointment of the assembled world press, a relatively fair 
election.

3/	THE ROYAL TOUR

Royalty: Aging monarch Queen Elizabeth II tools around the 
Northwest Territories. Aging monarchs the Rolling Stones fool 
around Exhibition Stadium

4/6	SEPARATE BEDS

Qu�lection: Teflon-coated future premier Jacques Parizeau laughs 
off his visit to a factory whose owner turns out to be a devoted 
federalist.

5/2	WHO SAID CRIME DON'T PAY?

Kops: After weeks of twisting in the political wind, U.S. President 
Clinton squeezes his "Crime Bill" though the House of 
Representatives.

6/4	DAMN YANKEES

Sporting lives: Baseball-strike bound Blue Jay broadcaster The FAN 
begins airing the play-by-play of computer baseball simulation 
games. After the 1961 Yankees beat the 1992 Jays 4-1, callers 
immediately blame Cito Gaston.

7/2	JOB ACTION

Politeness: Half of Toronto's cab drivers go on strike. Despite a week 
of driving around at a crawl, leaning on their horns and messing up 
traffic, no one notices.

8/	A MATTER OF BREEDING

Juice: Prosecutors say DNA tests on blood found at the crime scene 
show it matches O.J.'s. The defence responds with a blizzard of 
press releases.

9/	WELCOME BACK

Territorial Imperatives: Two ice-breakers reach the North Pole. 
Alongside Canada's Louis S. St. Laurent is the Polar Sea, the 
American vessel that so arrogantly cruised through supposedly 
sovereign Canadian waters in 1985.

10/	BUDDIES IN MEDIEVAL TIMES

God: The Vatican finds an unlikely ally in its dispute with the U.N. 
over next month's Cairo conference on population and development, 
which threatens to foster public discussion of birth control. Muslim 
preachers in the host nation spring to the side of the infidel, 
proclaiming the entire conference corrupt and immoral.


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