Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds : : The Media and the Gustafsen Lake Standoff / / Sandra Lambertus.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Lambertus, Sandra,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

What does the media coverage of a crisis situation reveal about the nature of dominant-minority relations locally, regionally, and nationally? Sandra Lambertus asks this question of the media coverage of the largest RCMP operation in Canadian history ? the 1995 Gustafsen Lake Native Indian standoff.Drawing from extensive newspaper, television, and radio news products, legal and law enforcement documents, ethnographic interviews with 26 journalists, as well as RCMP, and Native leaders, Lambertus examines the construction and national dissemination of vilifying stereotyped portrayals of Native people. The ethnographic component pushes the standard of media analysis, bringing to light previously unconsidered aspects of media representations of minorities: media and law enforcement processes, frameworks of the news makers, face presentation strategies, information control, and exchange relations in news-gathering. The investigation shows how the values and perspectives of local communities, media, and law enforcement became overshadowed by 'outsiders' during the course of the event and the serious effects of the media coverage on specific audiences and ultimately, Canadian society. The study culminates with an assessment of the structural elements that contributed to the damaging media portrayals: media bias, competition, cooperation, empowerment, and cultural misperceptions. Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds opens new avenues for studies of minorities in the news and for the study of news media in general.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Map of Gustafsen Lake, British Columbia, and Surrounding Area -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. SERIOUS RED ALERT -- 2. MEDIA CIRCUS -- 3. SHOW OF FORCE -- 4. OUT OF CONTROL -- 5. SURRENDER -- 6. TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT -- 7. WARTIME IMAGES, PEACETIME WOUNDS -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Topic Index