CRI205H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Silent Majority, National Post, Toronto Star
23 Dec 2020
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Critical theory and the media: news processing leads to the reproduction and legitimation of the ideologies of the political. Powerful persons and institutions have preferential access to the media. and economic elite: the media promotes a white, male and middle-class perspective of news events. Previous research on race, crime and the media: analysis of 10,000 stories appearing in the toronto print media over two month period in. Findings consistent with the work of francis henry and other canadian and american scholars. Overview of the star"s analysis: reviewed previous american, british and canadian research which suggests the existence of racial profiling, highlighted specific cases from toronto, conducted original analysis of data derived from the toronto police service"s criminal. Found that blacks were highly over-represented in certain types of crime statistics including simple drug possession and out-of-sight traffic offences. Star argued that this pattern of arrests is consistent with allegations of racial profiling.
