The Media and Nationalism in Que´bec: a complex relationship
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The question of bias in Québec political journalism has often been the subject of fierce debate; francophone journalists in Québec have long been accused of separatist bias by both anglophone journalists and the federal government. Such accusations rest on two questionable assumptions: that the media are more influential than deeply rooted cultural and historical experience, and that in the reporting of Québec issues, objectivity means that journalists can consider only federalism as a viable option for Quebecers. This article argues that the development of nationalism came first, with Québec journalists being influenced by nationalist ideas: not the other way around. Moreover, although the Québec media's coverage is different, this does not necessarily imply bias. The article focuses on the findings of two key studies of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Societé Radio-Canada coverage, which failed to find any evidence of such bias, and concludes that the persistence of the view that the Québec media lack objectivity and are manipulating the public on the issue of sovereignty arises out of a tradition of elite democracy.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.001 |
| 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