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

Published Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource ([xxi], 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents 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 Summary "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 documents, and ethnographic interviews with journalists, RCMP officers, and Native leaders, Lambertus examines the construction and dissemination of vilifying stereotyped portrayals of Native people. Employing a variety of methodologies including discourse analysis, the investigation shows how the values and perspectives of local communities, media, and law enforcement became overshadowed by those of 'outsiders' during the course of the event. The study culminates with an assessment of the structural elements that contributed to the damaging media portrayals. Provocative and convincingly argued, Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds opens new avenues for the study of the representation of minorities in the news and for the study of news media in general."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Royal Canadian Mounted Police SUBJECT Royal Canadian Mounted Police fast Subject Shuswap Indians -- Press coverage Shuswap Indians -- Civil rights Shuswap Indians -- Government relations. Law enforcement -- British Columbia Mass media and ethnic relations -- British Columbia Gustafsen Lake Standoff, B.C., 1995. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies. Ethnic relations Law enforcement Mass media and ethnic relations Politics and government Shuswap Indians -- Government relations Shuswap (Indiens) -- Dans la presse. Autochtones -- Dans les médias. SUBJECT British Columbia -- Ethnic relations British Columbia -- Politics and government Subject British Columbia Colombie-Britannique (Canada) -- Politique et gouvernement. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781442683242 1442683244 1281994243 9781281994240 9786611994242 6611994246

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