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| amatullah |
| 07/11/01 at 13:27:57 |
| Bismillah and salam, Here is an article written by a brilliant friend of mine, please make du'a that Allah may guide her to Islam: >ps: here is an article I just submitted to the Concordia Student's >Union for their 2001/2 sstudent handbook. Let me know what you >think. > >Have you given up on finding any kind of truth in the mainstream >media? Not yet? At least try to seek out some different news sources >because when 4 white men own all of Canada’s mainstream media >outlets it’s time to stretch ourselves to find out what we should >already know. > >Getting at the truth means finding out who controls what is said, >read, heard. The Canadian public is fed by The Big Four media >moguls: Izzy Asper (CanWest Global), Pierre Karl Peladeau >(Quebecor), Ted Rogers (Roger’s Communications Inc.) and of course, >Conrad Black (Hollinger Inc.). >· Rogers Media Inc. is a subsidiary of Rogers Communications > Inc.Comprising 29 radio stations ( 12 AM and 17 FM) >a televised home > shopping channel, a multi-cultural television >station in Toronto, ownership > in three cable programming services, 15 consumer >magazines, 47 > business periodicals and a New Media division. >· In a $3.5 billion deal in 2000, CanWest Global became >Canada’s largest media holding company. It gobbled up most of the >nation's largest newspaper chain: 13 daily newspapers, 123 other >daily and weekly newspapers, 85 trade publications and directories, >Internet properties like canada.com, and half-interest in The >National Post. > >Now Asper’s TV stations and newspapers will co-exist in multiple >markets. For instance, in the Vancouver/Victoria market, CanWest >owns: all three daily newspapers (Province, Sun, and Times >Colonist), a sizable chain of community newspapers, and three of six >TV stations (BCTV, CHEK, and Global). So much for the diversity of >news media in Vancouver. >CanWest's broadcast license is also up for review by the Canadian >Radio and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) but the CRTC has no >authority to regulate newspapers. Nor does the CRTC bother to ensure >employment equity within the public broadcast media like CBC. >· Recently the CRTC approved the $500 million dollar Quebecor >purchase of TVA, the most popular French channel in Quebec. Quebecor >already owns the tabloid-ish Journal de Montreal. In 1998, Mr. >Péladeau piloted the acquisition of Sun Media Corporation, making >Quebecor the second largest newspaper chain in Canada. Quebecor owns >World Color Press by Quebecor Printing Inc the world’s largest >commercial printer. > >No one at TVA is happy about the takeover, fearing job losses and >more editorial control. Similarly Hélène Pichette of the Federation >of Professional Journalists of Quebec, commented that newsrooms will >become totally impermeable to stories requiring in-depth research, >or a viewer with more than a 3 second attention span. Likewise >reporters at Le Journal de Montreal have complained to the CRTC that >they will not be able to write anything about Papa Peladeau’s >business antics without his approval. > >This said, is it surprising that the media outlets are so >superficial in their news coverage and so profoundly racist? I have >been monitoring broadcast and print media in Canada for almost two >years now and while the picture is not blank, it’s bleak. Racism and >other forms of discrimination run rampant within newsrooms, >editorial boards and management and journalism schools. > >For example the mandatory “Diversity and the Media” course at >Ryerson Jay- School angered students so much that for two years in a >row they signed petitions to remove it as a required course! The >course was designed specifically to fill a gap in the abilities of >the primarily white middle-class students to understand how to write >about people who were not like them. > >Nothing compels the media to change because the government and the >CRTC mold to fit corporate interests. Therefore, newsrooms continue >to churn out negative and unbalanced articles about people of colour >in Canada. Therefore, Diane Francis still has a job at the National >Post writing factually incorrect rants about immigrants and >refugees. Her style of reporting could be dubbed The One Source >method: find one racist immigrant hating person in a position of >authority and quote only them throughout your article. > > Reporters need catchy simple stories with strong elements of human >interest and conflict. Unfortunately good reporters who write >balanced, researched stories often get screwed by copy editors who >write the headlines for all stories. “Refugees Bring Malaria >Outbreak” was the sensationalist and misleading headline of a >not-so-bad article in the Montreal Gazette last September. You would >never guess from the headline that malaria outbreaks are only >brought by mosquitoes. But then, who can blame the copy editors? If >the headlines aren’t eye-catching then the product doesn’t sell. >This is why “If it bleeds, it leads” is a well-used newsroom >phrase. > >And television, well television is all about the visuals. I get >calls from journalists who request a real live family of refugees to >appear at their studio in 3 hours, during the middle of the day. I >guess they assume that all refugees are unemployed. For media >producers that would be like believing their own brainwashing! > >So unless you listen to community radio news shows, access >independent news off the Internet or read a million copies of Covert >Action Quarterly, its gonna be hard for you to decipher the truth >from the mainstream media’s version of it. Or you could always >become a reporter yourself…. |
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