’Killing’ the true story of First Nations: The Ethics of Constructing a Culture Apart
Cases taken from the coverage of Canadian/Ipperwash and American/Makah disputes over tribal land and sea claims point up that subtle but entrenched racist assumptions, conclusions, and myths of native culture persist despite attempts by newsrooms to be more culturally sensitive. Traditional journali...
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ftunivwestonta:oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:fimspub-1117 2023-10-01T03:55:59+02:00 ’Killing’ the true story of First Nations: The Ethics of Constructing a Culture Apart Fullerton, Romayne Smith Patterson, M J 2008-01-01T08:00:00Z https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/fimspub/113 https://doi.org/10.1080/08900520802222019 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08900520802222019 unknown Scholarship@Western https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/fimspub/113 doi:10.1080/08900520802222019 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08900520802222019 FIMS Publications Library and Information Science article 2008 ftunivwestonta https://doi.org/10.1080/08900520802222019 2023-09-03T07:26:50Z Cases taken from the coverage of Canadian/Ipperwash and American/Makah disputes over tribal land and sea claims point up that subtle but entrenched racist assumptions, conclusions, and myths of native culture persist despite attempts by newsrooms to be more culturally sensitive. Traditional journalism standards of practice and ethical approaches must be expanded to consider more of the subtleties of media's problematic representations of aboriginal peoples—as a culture, a culture apart, and a cultural construct. The ethics of continental philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, the ritual model of communication, and frameworks and methodologies used by feminist and cultural studies scholars are applied to show that journalism's current standards, which are rooted in Enlightenment ethics and embrace a transmission view of communication, are inadequate to the challenge of reporting on diversity in an ethnically complex world. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations The University of Western Ontario: Scholarship@Western Journal of Mass Media Ethics 23 3 201 218 |
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Cases taken from the coverage of Canadian/Ipperwash and American/Makah disputes over tribal land and sea claims point up that subtle but entrenched racist assumptions, conclusions, and myths of native culture persist despite attempts by newsrooms to be more culturally sensitive. Traditional journalism standards of practice and ethical approaches must be expanded to consider more of the subtleties of media's problematic representations of aboriginal peoples—as a culture, a culture apart, and a cultural construct. The ethics of continental philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, the ritual model of communication, and frameworks and methodologies used by feminist and cultural studies scholars are applied to show that journalism's current standards, which are rooted in Enlightenment ethics and embrace a transmission view of communication, are inadequate to the challenge of reporting on diversity in an ethnically complex world. |
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