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There you go Jean ... My pleasure.

"(Jean Wootton)" wrote:

> please can someone who is better at copy/paste than I, post this whole
> message?
> http://www.canoe.ca/LondonNews/lf.lf-01-25-0040.html
> Disproportionate use of "right-wing" sources and newspapers' biased
> reluctance to criticize influential owners and corporations are also
> red-flagged in the 233-page book. Broadcasters weren't studied.

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                        Tuesday, January 25, 2000 

                        Papers missing major stories, report finds

                                                By CP
                        OTTAWA --  Stories about labour, weapons exports and
                        white-collar crime are among blind spots in Canadian print journalism
                        cited in a report released yesterday. 

                        The Missing News, by media monitoring group NewsWatch
                        Canada, blames such omissions on ownership concentration and
                        newsroom cuts. 

                        Disproportionate use of "right-wing" sources and newspapers' biased
                        reluctance to criticize influential owners and corporations are also
                        red-flagged in the 233-page book. Broadcasters weren't studied. 

                        "Canadian print media, by and large, on matters of economics . . .
                        veer very strongly to the right," said co-author Richard Gruneau, a
                        communications professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. 

                        Data gathered by senior communications students at Simon Fraser
                        from 1993 to 1998 also show "Canadian journalism itself is in
                        disarray," he added. 

                        "Journalists feel . . . increasingly under pressure to do more with less
                        or see themselves being squeezed by a concentrated, corporate
                        press moving more in the direction of features and the relentless
                        pursuit of advertising revenue." 

                        Bryan Cantley of the Canadian Newspaper Association, an industry
                        lobby group, said corporate influence does not hover in the country's
                        newsrooms. 

                        "Newsrooms tend to be fiercely autonomous and they run things as
                        they see them. 

                        "I have no evidence that there's any kind of mass conspiracy in the
                        news media." 

                        Investment in investigative journalism seems to be on the rise, Cantley
                        added, noting the annual National Newspaper Awards received a
                        record 1,250 entries this year. The total includes 75 enterprise
                        reporting entries -- close to the all-time high of 77 in 1990. 

                        The Missing News was funded with $62,300 from the Social
                        Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and by the
                        Council of Canadians and the British Columbia Federation of
                        Labour. 

                        NewsWatch, formerly Project Censored Canada, ranked the top 10
                        under-reported stories from 1993 to 1995. These included
                        exploitation of home-based garment workers across Canada and the
                        tobacco industry's complicity in cigarette smuggling in the early 1990s
                        as it lobbied for lower tobacco taxes. 

                        The group switched in 1996 to content analysis of major Canadian
                        newspapers using controlled criteria. It says blind spots include: 

                        - Canada's involvement in global militarism (Canada is ranked as the
                        world's 10th largest arms exporter by the United Nations). 

                        - Environmental damage. 

                        - Religion and social values. 

                        - White-collar crime (which costs an estimated $30 billion a year.) 

                        - Gender stereotyping of women as victims and men as strong. 

                        - Anything on labour that doesn't involve a strike or other disruption. 

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