Spin doctors : how media and politicians misdiagnosed the COVID-19 pandemic /

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Author / Creator:Loreto, Nora, 1984- author.
Imprint:Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing, 2021.
Description:ix, 402 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12706718
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Other authors / contributors:Loreto, Nora, 1984- editor.
ISBN:1773634879
9781773634876
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued also in electronic formats.
Summary:"As Canada was in the grips of the worst pandemic in a century, Canadian media struggled to tell the story. Newsrooms, already run on threadbare budgets, struggled to make broader connections that could allow their audience to better understand what was really happening, and why. Politicians and public health officials were mostly given the benefit of the doubt that what they said was true and that they acted in good faith. This book documents each month of the first year of the pandemic and examines the issues that emerged, from racialized workers to residential care to policing. It demonstrates how politicians and uncritical media shaped the popular understanding of these issues and helped to justify the maintenance of a status quo that created the worst ravages of the crisis. Spin Doctors argues alternative ways in which Canadians should understand the big themes of the crisis and create the necessary knowledge to demand large-scale change."--
Other form:Online version: Loreto, Nora, 1984- Spin doctors. Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing, 2021 1773635069 9781773635064

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