Wartime Images Peacetime Wounds The Media and the Gustafsen Lake Standoff 1st Edition by Sandra Lambertus ISBN 0802085512 9780802085511

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ISBN 10: 0802085512

ISBN 13: 9780802085511

Author: Sandra Lambertus

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: 

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 Hache
Disagreements 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 Incident
Off-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 Firefight
Issue 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 Characterizations
Local 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
2 Abbreviations
3 History of Aboriginal Disputes in Canada
4 Excerpts from RCMP Operational Manual II.16 Media/RCMP Relations
5 Toronto Globe and Mail Account of the 11 September 1995 Firefight
6 Vancouver Sun Account of the 11 September 1995 Firefight
7 Excerpt from RCMP (Unclassified Memo) 1 September 1995

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