When: Sunday, January 25, 4 to 6pm (after 12pm Rally at Queen’s Park for Liberals’ Back to Work Legislation introduction)
Where: Concord Cafe, 937 Bloor St. West (near Ossington subway station)
Food will be available and time will be counted as alternative duty/ strike pay.
ALL UNIT 2 MEMBERS ARE WELCOME.
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Top Journal Article: “Listening to Labour: Mainstream Media, Talk Radio, and the 2005 B.C. Teachers Strike,” by Shane Gunster (excerpted from the Canadian Journal of Communication 33(4): 661-683).
In October 2005, B.C. public school teachers conducted a two-and-a- half-week illegal strike that attracted widespread support from the public. This article conducts a comparative content and discourse analysis of the news coverage provided by the leading provincial outlets in three media types: The Vancouver Sun (newspaper), the News Hour on Global (television), and The Bill Good Show (political talk radio). The Bill Good Show’s open-ended, participatory format, coupled with the host’s commitment to journalistic norms of objectivity and diversity, allowed teachers to play an active and significant role in shaping discussion and debate about the strike.
To read the complete study, click here.