WITBY FRE PPE8S, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1992 PAGE 7 PAGE SEVEN Another Year-in-R.eview! Sinceeerbd' writingz Year-in-Review pieces, I figue what the okwynot? Which loada riglit into an expose on Year-in-Review piecea'. By the. end of the column, this leade fo a formula for world peace. But ptence. A nhumbe of newspaper readers actually read Year-in-Review articles. Sinice the papora burst at ýthe seams with them between Dec. 23 and Jan. 8, a media observer who is sufficiently thick botween the oars miglit conclude that editors love this sort of thing. Don't bot your Christmas Visa paymont on it. In fact, at this very, point in reading this coluinn, P.ro. Press editor Maurice Piler began to crinige and sob., "Enougieog! urn eRading Swan every weok lpunishmont enough. But reading.a Year-in-Review pioco by Swan! Il take tth. matter to the! hurnan nights commiadon." Or worda to that effoct. Translated, what Maurice was saying waa tuis: Your average oditor abhors Year-in-Review. But then, you aak,.why? Whydo oditors gmi their teeth and fi11 page aller pgewth Hli ri--frm '9, Jean Dixon Predicta192EliTolAlin'? Why? Dare w. mention it? Shhh! It'll just b. our secret. Editors fi il page aller page with Year-in-Review stuf because.. There' nothing lse to write about. (Bingo!) You mean that's it? Year-in-Review piecea appear juat to fil the spaoe becauso nothing else is happening? couse ounover know to what lengthasnome editors wi < gotohicle this fact. Let's talk about daily newspaper editoa. Tii. newspaper. world in. divided largely into two camps: d=aily newepapers, -which have comics to attract intelligent redr and Woekly* newspapers, which are publisiied every week. a newepaper disappears But thon where would the. Boming Week Sae ada go? Olcaýy, no editors thon put out truncated holiday editions, with Boing W!eek, Sale ada separa ted by lots of Year-in-Review piecea. For woekly newspapers (1k. Tii. Pro. Press), these holiday oditionsamare welcomed by readers, editora and reporters as a break fi-om routine. On daily newspapera, the problem becomea more complicated. Day after day aller day, editors churn out a paper that 'nobody reads. And theresa nothing new in it w era secret collective of dailv newspapera1 bought the. rights to the U.S.S.R. for on. week. For an undisclosed -amount of cash, the dailies nhad unreatricted rights to invent whatever newa would break through tho holilay olrua Editors write the headlines; politiciana foiow with the acte. 'UMlt-. Gorbio eain adthe.U.S.S.R. disappra Tiiherrinl not new. tdNpaid a dictatores ra'nsom* for theorigttothe Desert Storm war, the firet exaniple of a m ade-rT Vwar. Youll meo more in the future. You think Canada'a future depnda on politiciana? Gueaaan 1'efirat newspaperto o p decent fo.a will gin fi rights towrite the Constitution to carry Canada ithte neit cen. (Thinkoanada as written by: *the Globe: Québec stocka favour umity; *the Star. Québec sweeps Chretien to power; *the. Sun: Reform party rejecta Quebec (cleavage on page 3); *the Canadian Press: Constitution confirman Canada's future.) We are eclging toward a new concept of news: write tiie headlines firat, let reality follow. Combine this with the. thought that nè news happons over Christmas because newa people go on vacation. olniedyofevr Lotsi build on that. Givo news plex iedy f vr two weeks all year long. Lot them work on. day every two woeks te follow up on important newr. barn fires, car crashes, Becker Store holdups, Loaf Actories. For the rest, lot it alide. If nobody writes it up, it didn't haUpen . Even Loaf fana would behaýppy t ýnews people pay for the 'rVtý rites.' Ail royalties- could thon go into a special fund to reduco the deficit or dopose the. Prime Ministe. 0 f course, some nowspaper ia going te have to pay, and paydoarly, to write tht eadline: Mulroney rsga Or - iy!youheard thus ler. firat! -- w. combine both. 9+>JrY ~4~T' Wk~ c~N*~ t4F' ~iii-1 THI" A~'Iv#1rI ~/ ENOWSHOEING AT THE ONTARIO LADIES' COLLEGE, C.,1920 The old Trafagar Castie at Ieft was bwlit as the residenco of SheriffNelson Gilbert ]Reynolds in 1859-62. Since 1874, it has been a pnivate girld school. The. addition at right ia Frances Hall, built in 1895 with, money from the Massey faxnily. Whitv Ardihus photo 10 YEARB AGO from the WenM L Jn 6, 1982 odition of the " Residents of tho Ottor Crook subdivision ao ro ady to go to the. Ontario Municipal Board to stop a townhouse devloIomont. " Rooring houses, rodoenon tho Paoychiatric Hospital and improvements to Fairview Lodge are tho top social usues for 1982 in Wlntby. " A new location for Denis CYConnor Hligh School is a top priority for the Soparato School Board. " Guards had to usefrioehoosto quell adisturbonc at theWhitby Jail onNew Yeae'Day. 35 YEIARS AGO from tho Thursday, January 10, 1957 odition of the WHITBY WEEIKLY NEWS " John Spratt ia chairman of tho Whitby Planning Boord. " A booter club is being formed for the. Whitby Dunlope senior 'A' hockey toam. " The latest contract for Dunlop of Canada workers includes a guarantoed annual wage. " MissAima Giboon oelebratos lier 89th birtiiday 'on January 13. 100 YEARS AGO fromthe. Prida ,January 8, 1892 edition of the "* Tho Whitby HlEghland Club -wM,1present a musical and literary entortainentatti Brooklin Masonic Hall on January 25& " Silighng bas begun, now that there ia onough mmo on the roads.. *James Campbell lias been re-4ected Mayor of Wbitby for 1892. *Miss Jeasie Alexander, Canada's star eloeutionist, will make ler Birut appearance at the Music Hall on January 26. i. 1 1