Prospective News: press pre-framing of the 1996 Ontario public service strike
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Analysis of press coverage leading up to the 1996 Ontario Public Service strike indicates how framing of the negotiations between the Ontario government and the Ontario Public Service Employees' Union in terms of the dispute over "job security" shifted the critical focus onto the union. The dominant news frame of a prospective strike was articulated through a relatively conventional strike script focusing on the ways a strike would be problematic for the union with regard to public opinion, internal solidarity, and disruptive effects. While the government was portrayed as acting strategically and the union reactively, the dominant narrative explaining the position of both was an economistic one. An alternative, more marginal narrative explaining the government's motivation in political and ideological terms also appeared, but there was no equivalent narrative for the union. By relying on an economistic account, the news coverage acquiesced in the government's attempt to define the situation in its own terms, and thereby became implicated in reproducing the grounds of struggle for hegemonic resonance.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 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 it