Bibliographic record
Abstract
War correspondents have, and continue to risk their own personal safety in order to capture a story and communicate news. The first war correspondents from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Art Holmes and Robert Bowman, shipped out from Halifax in late 1939, and for the duration of the war vested themselves in standard military attire. Identical to that of the soldiers on the front whose stories they was capturing, Holmes and Bowman were given military uniforms. Although correspondents were neither soldiers nor members of the armed forces, they were given military priority and respect by association of what this uniform signified. With consideration of the intimate linkage of this piece and the history of journalism, Holmes’ uniform functions both literally and semiologically as a story telling medium. Holmes wore this in order that he could correspond, or literally act as a medium between the front lines and those at home in Canada. As such, this object functions semiologically in a true Marshall McLuhan “the medium is the message” sense. As the medium of transmission (what he wore in order to do this work), Holmes and all extensions of Holmes (the uniform) are in fact the very message that it sought to portray- the stories of the front, the troops, and the war. Holmes was wearing the stories that he was transmitting. As a material culture artefact, this uniform is telling not only of the Second World War, but also the history of war correspondence and early methods of journalism, as well as association to the technologies that made such correspondences possible. Because the uniform was the same as the military, this object also makes valuable links to the correlation between journalists and members of the armed forces. These analyses will illustrate how this artefact, worn by the person who was recording history, is in fact, a significant piece of that history itself.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".