The Quebec Press Council ruled yesterday that a series on the Holocaust printed in the Montreal Star was a “document of public interest” and had not been an attempt to manipulate Quebec public opinion.
The Quebec City-based council, a semi-official group that rules on journalistic ethics, was replying to a complaint from a man named Roger Cote who accused the Star of “insidious propaganda by trying to set up a dangerous parallel between the politics of the pro-independent Parti Quebecois now in power in this province and the Nazi doctrine in Germany.” In rejecting Cote’s complaint, the council asserted that he cannot act as a censor in determining the policies or views of newspapers and news agency services. (By Michael Solomon)
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