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March 07, 2007
Debate 5: What is the media’s responsibility in portraying and reporting on visible minorities and/or First Peoples in Canada?
Some resources...
Maher Arar:
Arar Commission Enquiry, Opening Statement. (2004). Submitted by Maher Arar and His Council to the Commission of Enquiry, 2004.
If link does not work check www.maherarar.ca/cms/images/uploads/Arar_opening_statementfinal.pdf
See also Maher Arar site
http://www.maherarar.ca/
Commission of Enquiries into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar. (2006). Arar Commission Reports
--Report of the Events>Relating to Maher Arar: Analysis and Recommedations.
--A New Review Mechanism for the RCMP’s National Security Activities. Retrieved February 2007.
The Missing Women in BC:
Yasmin Jiwani. How We See 'Missing Women', The Tyree, June 21 2006.
The Feminist Media Project, UBC.
The Feminist Media Project was started by a group of concerned academics and journalists focused on a feminist intervention in media depictions of missing and murdered women, and the related trial of Robert Pickton in Vancouver, British Columbia, for 26 charges of first-degree murder in the slayings of women.
Details of the trial against Pickton, which begins in January 2007, are bound to generate the most salacious and disturbing media coverage that reinforces stereotypes about women victims of violence and their perpetrators. Recognition of these issues and subsequent change in media representations can only occur through informed public discourse.
The website, which launched in January 2007, is under the direction of Dr. Mary Lynn Young, a faculty member at the University of British Columbia School of Journalism.
Posted by shade at March 7, 2007 11:55 AM