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Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the Covid-19 Pandemic: Used
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- Publication Date
- 2022-01-04
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN
- 9781773634876
- Book Title
- Spin Doctors : How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Fernwood Publishing Co., LTD.
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.2in
- Genre
- Political Science
- Topic
- Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 8.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
Fernwood Publishing Co., LTD.
ISBN-10
1773634879
ISBN-13
9781773634876
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20050396862
Product Key Features
Book Title
Spin Doctors : How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the Covid-19 Pandemic
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Political Science
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Ra644.C67l667 2021
Reviews
Passionate, hard-hitting and refreshingly original, the book is sure to appeal to harsh critics of the Canadian response to COVID-19 and skeptics who have lost faith in both political leaders and their newfound allies, public health officers., Spin Doctors is a remarkable, month-by-month account of the Canadian media's interest, lack of interest, and choices driven by political and economic interest during the opening waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. With intricate detail and masterful research, Nora Loreto's deft analysis pulls no punches and uncovers truths from multiple angles--narrating an all-too-real story of ill-prepared politicians, a panicked population, and Canadian journalism's complicated response to the story of a lifetime., Loreto decries the propagation in the early stages of the pandemic of what she calls the ?myth of individual responsibility,? whereby an emphasis by both government and media on things like masking and distancing, while clearly useful on the micro level, also served to obscure bigger causal issues. The result, she writes, has been a corrosive social atomization that makes class divisions and economic inequalities ? with their disproportionate impact on minorities and the most vulnerable members of society ? all the more starkly evident. ?We?ve seen that over and over,? said Loreto. ?Any place where there was a crack in social solidarity, COVID got in and caused damage.? -Ian McGillis, Montreal Gazette, Dec 2021
Table of Content
: Introduction : March - The Pandemic Emerges : April - Disaster in Residential Care : May - COVID-19 Hits Food Processing Industries : June - Systemic Racism and COVID-19 Spread : July - The Lie of Personal Responsibility : August - The End of CERB : September - Back to School in the COVID-19 Era : October - Migrant Workers and COVID-19 Outbreaks : November - The Race for the Vaccine : December - The Gendered Impact : January - Disability Erased and Distorted : February - The Disaster of Workplace Spread : March - One Year in Media Cuts : Conclusion: Canada after COVID-19
Copyright Date
2021
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2022-362450
Dewey Decimal
362.1962/41400971
Dewey Edition
23
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