Role of media during okay crisis
1303 Guiding Questions
Week 10
* Instructions from the syllabus: each student must complete 4 responses (worth 2.5 % each) to the weekly “Guiding Questions” posted on Blackboard. To get full marks, answers must be in sentence form (approx. 4-5 sentence per answer) and show clear engagement with the weekly reading, including the use of citations (MLA, APA, or Chicago) to specific course material (quotes etc.).
- What images of Indigenous peoples do you recall from your childhood (movies, films, books)?
- On pg 251 (This is an Honour Song), Michael Orsini argues that the media take refuge in three comfortable stereotypes about Indigenous peoples. What are they and why does the media do this?
- How much experience with Indigenous issues did Michael Orsini have before he started covering the Oka conflict for The Gazette? (see pg. 253).
- What does Michael Orsini mean when he argues that Canada’s media suffers from a bad case of “Johnny come lately”? (See pg. 256).