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Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers

2012· article· en· W233940362 on OpenAlex
David R. Spencer

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNewspaperGovernment (linguistics)DozenGlobeHistoryMedia studiesGeographySociologyPsychology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Anderson, Mark Cronlund and Carmen L. Robertson. Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2011. 336 pp. $27.95. The importance of this study, and those which hopefully will follow, came home to hit hard while I was watching an episode of the classic television western, Wagon Train. Oh, yes, I was well aware of the facts that aboriginals have not fared overly well in the media culture of this country and any one of a dozen others around the globe. And I cannot comprehend the image of a native warrior holding a piece of female underwear as his colleagues attack the train. The show was not, however, a matter of degrading a specific group of people. It was a statement on race relations created about seven decades ago. As the authors point out in the first chapter, no one placed the question of land use or land space on the agenda when the Canadian government purchased the holdings of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1869 to form what eventually became the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and the expansion of Manitoba. The book contains twelve chapters and a summary conclusion which covers considerable territory. Although it is not within the final chapter, the study effectively concludes with a serious look at one of the major native uprisings in Canada in a small Quebec town, Oka, which is famous for its cheeses. In that case, the town council had proposed building a golf course on lands which the local native community had defined as theirs. Eventually, the natives blockaded a road, which led to a violent confrontation with the provincial police, who lost one of their officers in the conflict. In many ways, Oka represented the turning point in native and non-native affairs. More serious confrontations were to follow. In particular, a conflict in Ontario at a provincial park, which local natives argued was the site of a burial ground. The government disagreed and sent in the Ontario Provincial Police to remove the natives from the site. When the dust cleared, one of the native protesters was dead. So, how does the press fit into all ofthisi For the answer we return to Wagon Train and the attitudes that are encompassed, which the authors argue are still plaguing native communities today. I can attest personally to the difficulty of working with newspapers whose content is seldom indexed. It presents a challenge to cover what is considered to be important to the story and, of course, that leads one to wonder why a significant event escapes attention. Quite simply, there is just not enough space to be that thorough. …

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.915
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.261
Teacher spread0.241 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it