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

Intro -- 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 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- B -- C -- F -- G -- H -- L -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Topic Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Wartime Images, Peacetime Woundsopens new avenues for studies of minorities in the news and for the study of news media in general.

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