EXAMPLE 1
Paper: The
National Post
Date:
December 30, 1999
Page:
A12
Source:
Associated Press
Headline: Israel removes shrine to murder Troops, settlers scuffle near Goldstein grave
In Text: "...
at the grave of Baruch Goldstein, a settler who massacred 29 Palestinians
at Hebron's main mosque in 1994".
WORTH NOTING: No "Jewish" terrorist, extremist .. etc.
====================
but in the same paper, same day, same page ..
Source: Agence France Presse
Headline: Terrorists among 26 prisoners released by Israel
In Text: "... Israel freed 26 Palestinian prisoners, including, for the first time, terrorists who had killed Israelis or tourists".
EXAMPLE 2
Paper: The
National Post
Date:
January 22, 2000
Page:
A13
By: John
Williamson, National Post
Headline: Bush makes pitch to Republicans' ultra- right wing
Photo: Bush speaks, with a picture of Jesus Christ in the background
Photo Caption:
George W.Bush, Republican Presidential hopeful, campaigns in Colfax, Iowa, yesterday at the Teen Challenge of the Midlands.
WORTH NOTING: No use of extremists, militants, fundamentalists terms in text.
EXAMPLE 3
The National Post did not run this news story:
Paper: The
Globe and Mail
Date:
February 5, 2000
Page:
A3
Source:
Rod Mickleburgh, B.C. Bureau
Headline: Released B.C. man demands probe
Photo Caption:
Youssef Karroum reunites with his children, Fatima Zahra 2-1/2, Amin 5, and five month old Hajar at home in surrey B.C. Thursday after being held in Washington for a week without charges
====================
Paper: The
Toronto Star
Date:
February 5, 2000
Page:
A8
Source:
Daniel Girard, Western Canada Bureau
Headline: 'Wrong person in the wrong place' Jailed in the U.S., a B.C. man tells his side of a sealed story
Photo Caption:
"I kept telling
them they had the wrong man but they refused to listen ... if they
don't apologize to me or my community or Muslims here in British
Columbia they should apologize to my country, Canada" - Youssef
Karroum
EXAMPLE 4
The National Post did not run this news story:
Paper: The
Globe and Mail
Date:
February 15, 2000
Page:
A16
Source:
unspecified
Headline: U.S.
to ask for release of Montreal woman - No links to terrorism, Garofalo's
lawyer says
"In Germany, the Nazis came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because
I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't
speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade
unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because
I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time
there was no one left to speak for me". Martin Niemoller, a Protestant Minister and
leader of the Confessing Church |
EXAMPLE
5
Paper: The
National Post
Date:
February 16, 2000
Page:
A10
Source:
The Gazette with files from National Post and the Canadian Press
Headline: Woman linked to terrorist suspect pleads guilty to immigration charges
WORTH NOTING: The same story was published by The Globe and Mail on the same day, page A9, and was given more than double the space and it was more informative, under the title " Jailed in U.S., Montreal mother allowed to return to Canada".
A follow-up
was published on February 17, 2000 on page A7, with the headline
"Garofalo back in Montreal a 'big star' after jail stint"
EXAMPLE 6
Only The National Post ran this news story:
Paper: The
National Post
Date:
February 19, 2000
Page:
A15
Source:
The New York Times
Headline: U.S. Investigation Links Islamic Charities to Terrorism
In Text: " ... Islamic terrorist"
EXAMPLE 7
The National Post gave different emphasis to the same story than those published by its counterparts:
Paper: The
Globe and Mail
Date:
March 3, 2000
Page:
A2
By: Jeff Sallot, Globe and Mail
Headline: Canada not overrun by terrorists: CSIS Director tells Commons Committee that 350 suspects not many for nation of 33 million
====================
Paper: The
Toronto Star
Date:
March 3, 2000
Page:
A23
Source:
The Canadian Press
Headline: Canada not a huge haven for terrorists, spy chief says
====================
Paper: The
National Pos
Date:
March 3, 2000
Page:
A6
By: Joel-Denis
Bellavance, National Post
Headline: Spy agency studying its handling of Ressam Case
EXAMPLE 8
Paper: The
National Post
Date:
March 9, 2000
Page:
Front page A1 and A2
By: Steward
Bell, National Post
Headline: Canadian financed terror bombs, Sri Lankans Say
In Text: "...ethnic Tamil insurgents", "...hardline ethnic Tamil nationalists"
WORTH NOTING:
no use of "terrorists", .. etc.
EXAMPLE 9
Paper: The
National Post
Date:
March 20, 2000
Page:
A11
Source:
Bruce Johnston, The Daily Telegraph with files from Alan Philps
Headline: Pope begins 'difficult' visit to Holy Land
In Text: "... In one place, a cross was equated with the Nazi Symbol, with the words "Where were you during the Holocaust?" Police suspect Kach, a banned extremist group, of the vandalism"
WORTH NOTING: no association to "Jewish" extremist group.
EXAMPLE 10
The National Post did not run this news story:
Paper: The
Globe and Mail
Date:
March 31, 2000
Page:
A5
Source:
Idelia Sturino, Canadian Press
Headline: Improve French, Quebec tells man
Photo Caption:
Rahman Khan, his wife, Thamina, and son Tasif stand at the counter of their Montreal convenience store.
====================
Paper: The
Toronto Star
Date:
March 31, 2000
Page:
A2
Source:
Idelia Sturino, Canadian Press
Headline: Quebec criticizes grocer's French
Photo Caption:
Language Laws:
Rahman Khan, with his wife, Thamina, and son Tasif, says he doesn't
have time to take another French course as Quebec requested
EXAMPLE 11
Paper: The
National Post
Date:
April 18, 2000
Page:
B10, banner front page A1
By: Rebecca
Eckler, National Post
Headline: It's The Hat, Stupid!
In Text: "Last week former Reform chief Preston Manning was photographed in a skullcap as he attended a prayer meeting at Toronto's Taric Islamic Center ... He was probably wearing it as a sign of respect. Yet all around him, actual members of the Islamic community weren't wearing a darn thing on their heads"
WORTH NOTING: the word 'darn' is inappropriate (and not humourous). The statement itself is also inaccurate, because some Muslim men do wear head cover during prayer.
EXAMPLE 12
Paper: The
National Post
Date:
April 27, 2000
Page:
A11
By: Steward
Bell, National Post
Headline: Sri Lanka struggles to halt Tamils' northern offensive
In Text: " ..Tamil insurgents"
WORTH NOTING: no use of "terrorists", .. etc.
EXAMPLE 13
Paper: The
National Post
Date:
May 5, 2000
Page:
A14
Source:
Reuters with files from Associated Press
Headline: UN presses Sierra Leone to free peacekeepers
In Text: "... held by rebels .."
WORTH NOTING:
no 'kidnappers', 'extremists', 'terrorists'; or labeling
by religion, ethnic origin or political affiliation.
EXAMPLE 14
This story was not run by The National Post
Paper: The
Globe and Mail
Date:
May 19, 2000
Page:
A2
Source:
Canadian Press
Headline: Montreal woman put on probation
Photo Caption:
Lucia Garafalo, 35, once linked by U.S. authorities to a bomb plot, talks to reporters outside court in Burlington, Vt, yesterday after she was put on probation for two years for immigration offences
====================
Paper: The
Toronto Star
Date:
May 19, 2000
Page:
A12
Source:
Canadian Press
Headline: Montreal woman 'regrets' crimes, Gets probation for trying to take Algerian into U.S.
Photo Caption:
Garafalo
EXAMPLE 15
Paper: The
National Post
Date:
June 5, 2000
Page:
A12
Source:
The Sunday Telegraph
Headline: Terrorist bomb wave feared in Britain IRA Splinter Group
In Text: " ..The two splinter groups - which remain opposed to the Northern Ireland peace process - are the focus of the investigation into the bridge bombing"
WORTH NOTING:
no use of 'Irish terrorist groups' or similar terminology.
Media need to take a hard look at use of language and images By: Carol Tator and Frances Henry- Department of Anthropology at York Univeristy The Toronto Star, January 28, 2000 Excerpts: "As academics
and anti-racists who have been monitoring, analyzing and working
with the media for more than two decades, we would suggest
(that) .. racism in the media is not really about conscious
or unconscious biases of one particular journalist or broadcaster;
rather, it is to be found in the structure and culture of
the organization and in the content and delivery of the news.
We would argue, based on a significant body of evidence, that
every media organization in the country should undertake a
comprehensive review of both the subtle and overt ways in
which racism is buried in everyday policies and practices.
The media represents one of the most powerful institutions
in a democratic society, the key instrument by which its ideals
are produced and disseminated. It is time for both reflection
and action on the part of the Canadian print and electronic
media. It is time for media organizations to begin to take
a hard look at their own professional and personal ideologies,
corporate interests, organizational norms and values, and
the way in which these elements influence the way in which
news and programming is constructed and communicated. A truly
democratic liberal society requires a more inclusive, impartial
and responsible media." |
EXAMPLE 16
Paper: The
National Post
Date:
August 7, 2000
Page:
A9
Source: Alan Philps, The Daily Telegraph
Headline: Holocaust Victims Deserved to Die: Rabbi
In Text: " ..the spiritual leader of the influential Ultra-Orthodox Shas party.."
WORTH NOTING: no use of 'Jewish' extremist, fundamentalist terms ... etc.
EXAMPLE 17
Paper: The
National Post
Date:
August 7, 2000
Page:
A10
Source:
Reuters
Headline: IRA denies approval of weapons delivery
In Text: " .. the Irish Republican Army ..", ".. the guerrilla group also said they had been in breach of its ceasefire with the killing on July 30 of Charles Bennett, a 22-year-old Roman Catholic man ..", ".. the political process' ability to realize the goal of Irish unity, in whose name the IRA waged a 30-year battle against British rule ..", ".. One of the groups, called the Real IRA and made up of defectors from the mainstream IRA planted a bomb in the Northern Irish town of Omagh last August 15, killing 29 people".
WORTH NOTING:
no use of 'terrorist', 'extremist', 'militant' terminology.
EXAMPLE 18
Paper: The
National Post
Date:
August 31, 2000
Page:
A10
By: Peter
Goodspeed, The National Post
Headline: Another victim buried in Spain's summer of terror
In Text: ".. ETA has unleashed their fiercest terror offensive in more than one decade", ".. ETA has now killed a dozen people since January", ".. making this one of the bloodiest summers in Spanish history since the days of the civil war" , ".. the stepped-up terror campaign comes after the ETA cancelled ..", ".. the ETA has varied its tactics in a bid to spread terror across a wider portion of Spain's population.", ".. (ETA) had killed up to 800 people.", "..terrorism experts estimate the ETA's active network numbers fewer than 300 ".
WORTH NOTING:
ETA is not a terrorist group according to the Post and full explanation
is given on 'why' ETA is launching its terror campaign.
At the regional and national level
Canadian Muslims rarely appear in a positive light in the media, as indicated by:
At the international level
Muslims are in the media TOO MUCH .. mainly because:
"Journalists use the criteria of objectivity to enhance their claim to professional status. As Canada's 1980-81 Royal Commission on Newspapers put it: "The great majority [of Canadians] believe that newspapers, and the mass media in general, have responsibilities to the public different from those of other businesses". In
other words, Canadians widely believe that news media should
seek other than their own profitability in the economic marketplace.
Accordingly, as institutions central to democratic life, they
are widely expected to function in the public interest."
from "Sustaining Democracy? Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity" by Robert A. Hackett and Yuezhi Zhao, Garamond Press, Toronto, 1998. |
"Journalists
are professionals, with professional standards of conduct. While
they do not always live up to their ideals (in that they resemble
other professionals), those standards are part of their consciousness.
Journalists are servants of the truth and of the public."
from a lecture by Canadian journalist and Globe and Mail columnist Robert Fulford, "The Pushes and Pulls on Canadian Journalists" delivered at Meiji University, Tokyo; excerpts published by the Globe and Mail, February 7, 1998. |
- the violent young Black man
- the miser Christ-killer Jew
- the militant bearded young Muslim man
- the oppressed brainless Muslim woman with Hijab
- the drunken Native
- the dagger-carrying militant Sikh
