images of Aboriginal people in the Australian media /
Michael Meadows.
Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
2001.
1 online resource (xii, 249 pages)
Contributions to the study of mass media and communications,
no. 59
0732-4456 ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-232) and index.
Tables; Preface; Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1 Journalism, Images, and Indigenous Affairs; 2 The History of Misrepresentation Thus Begins . . .; 3 Celebration of a Nation-The Bicentenary; 4 Voices in the Wilderness-The Cape York Spaceport; 5 Lost Opportunities-The Native Title Debate; 6 Reporting the Everyday-Rationalizing Racism; 7 Managing the Media-Ethics and Professionalism; 8 Reconciliation; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; Bibliography; Index.
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This book examines race relations in Australia through various media representations over the past 200 years. The early colonial press perpetuated the image of aboriginal people as framed by early explorers, and stereotypes and assumptions still prevail. Print and television news accounts of several key events in recent Australian history are compared and reveal how indigenous sources are excluded from stories about their affairs. Journalists wield extraordinary power in shaping the images of cultures and people, so indigenous people, like those in North America, have turned away from mainstre.
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