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Wartime images, peacetime wounds : the media and the Gustafsen Lake standoff /

"In Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds, Sandra Lambertus asks this question of the media coverage of the largest RCMP operation in Canadian history - the 1995 Gustafsen Lake standoff." "Drawing from extensive newspaper, television, and radio news coverage, legal and law enforcement docu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lambertus, Sandra
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Map of Gustafsen Lake, British Columbia, and Surrounding Area
  • INTRODUCTION
  • The Media, Law Enforcement, and Aboriginal Peoples
  • History of Aboriginal Disputes in Canada
  • Media Representation of Aboriginal Peoples
  • Canadian Studies of Media and Aboriginal Resistance
  • Methodology
  • Representation
  • Organization of the Book
  • 1 SERIOUS RED ALERT
  • RCMP Media Relations Program
  • Media and RCMP Relations
  • Early Beginnings of the Conflict at Gustafsen Lake
  • Shooting Incident at Lac La HacheDisagreements between the Camp and the Local Native Communities
  • Insider versus Outsider Perspectives
  • 2 MEDIA CIRCUS
  • Williams Lake Press Conference
  • Media Converge at 100 Mile House
  • Journalists and the People at the Camp
  • Media Coverage of Ovide Mercredi, Grand Chief of the Assembly of First Nations
  • Closing off the Camp to the Media
  • Interpretations of the Barricades and Closing off Camp Communications
  • The Barricades and the Media Characterizations
  • 3 SHOW OF FORCE
  • Shooting Episode: The Flak Jacket IncidentOff-the-Record Meeting
  • Creation of a Media Celebrity
  • Coverage of the Attack on the RCMP Suburban
  • Media Witnessing the Arrival of Armoured Personnel Carriers
  • Press Conferences at 100 Mile House
  • RCMP Confiscation of CBC Television Videotapes
  • Media and the Meeting at Alkali Lake
  • Inclusion of Native Intermediaries
  • Relations of Power in the Exchange of Information
  • 4 OUT OF CONTROL
  • Preamble to the Firefight
  • Firefight
  • Interpretation of the RCMP Wescam Recording
  • The Press Conference
  • Comparative Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of the FirefightIssue of Corrections
  • Release of Criminal Records
  • Smear Campaign
  • Walker Incident
  • Information Control and Media Stereotyping
  • 5 SURRENDER
  • CBC Radio Announcement of the Surrender Message
  • Media Tours of Camp Zulu
  • Media Coverage of the End of the Standoff
  • Media Tour of the Camp
  • Denouement
  • 6 TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT
  • Stereotyping in Media Products
  • Stereotype Labels in Newspaper Stories
  • Labelling in Canadian Press News Stories
  • Audience Responses to the Media CharacterizationsLocal Audiences
  • Local Media
  • Image Management by Local Native and Non-Native Communities
  • A Question of Harm
  • 7 WARTIME IMAGES, PEACETIME WOUNDS
  • A Structural Approach to the Study of Media
  • Macro-Level Structural Elements Influencing the Media Coverage
  • Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds
  • Public Policy and the Media
  • Public Policy and RCMP Media Relations
  • Epilogue: Since the Gustafsen Lake Standoff
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Appendices
  • 1 Chronology of the 1995 Gustafsen Lake Standoff