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AIR INDIA Twenty Years After the Terrorist Plot Killed 331, There Is Still Outrage, Confusion, Fear and a Sense of Injustice Plus: A new book dissects the media’s performance during the last federal election.. AIR INDIA Twenty years after the terrorist plot killed 331, there is still outrage, confusion, fear and a sense of injustice THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF JOURNALISTS SPRING 2005 • VOLUME 11, NUMBER 2 • $3.95 L’ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DES JOURNALISTES– Spring 2005 Volume 11, Number 2 Publisher Nick Russell INSIDE Editor David McKie Books Editor DEPARTMENTS Gillian Steward 4 First Word The media's track record of coverage after major inquiries and royal commissions is very weak. Legal Advisor By David McKie Peter Jacobsen (Bersenas Jacobsen Chouest Thomson Blackburn LLP) 5 JournalismNet For the adventurous types, there is an alternative to Internet Explorer. By Julian Sher Designer Bonanza Printing & Copying Centre 6 Book Review A new book on the last federal election compares the media's use of polls to the way a "drunken man would use a lamp post: for support rather than illumination." Printer Bonanza Printing & Copying By Chris Cobb Centre 8 Fine Print The lesson for newsrooms is clear: if search warrants have been sealed, don't take 'no' for an Editorial Board answer.A court challenge is likely to bring much of the information to light. Chris Cobb, Wendy McLellan, By Dean Jobb Sean Moore, Catherine Ford, Michelle MacAfee, FEATURE Lindsey Crysler, 10 The Air India Verdict The Vancouver Sun's Kim Bolan has covered this case ever since the plane went down on John Gushue, Doesn’t Make Sense June 23, 1985. She remains incredulous that after all of this time, we're no closer to finding Rob Cribb out what happened in Canada's worst criminal case. Advertising Sales John Dickins 12 And The Winner Is... It's awards season again, and there is some grumbling amid the back-slapping and Administrative Director congratulations. John Dickins By Michelle MacAfee (613)526-8061 Fax: (613)521-3904 E-mail: [email protected] When shock jock Jeff Fillion began using his morning show on Quebec City's CHOI-FM to 14 The Limits of Free Speech MEDIA is published three times launch blistering personal and sexist attacks on TV weatherperson, Sophie Chiasson, he went a year by: too far. Her successful defamation suit has some people wondering about the meaning of Canadian Association of free speech. Journalists, By Linda Kay 1385 Woodroffe Avenue., B-224 Algonquin College Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8 DEPARTMENTS Reproduction without the written 16 Computer-assisted reporting Online databases can provide valuable information, everything from political donations to a permission of the publisher is description of schools in Newfoundland. strictly forbidden By Fred Vallance-Jones Media is a publication of the Canadian Association of Journalists. 17 Ethics There are seven lessons that journalists can learn from the Stevie Cameron affair. It is managed and edited By Stephen J.A.Ward independently from the CAJ and its contents do not necessarily reflect the views of the Association. 18 Opinion When it comes to scientific studies that affect our health, media will sometimes exaggerate the seriousness of the 'threat.' 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Peter Battistoni/Vancouver Sun [PNG Merlin Archive] FIRST WORD BY DAVID MCKIE We lack inquiring minds Media outlets give lots of attention to public inquiries and royal commissions, then lose sight of the key recommendations they make uring a national conference for journalists, So,unfortunately,Picard's words ring as true to Once the ad scandal inquiry is over and the The Globe and Mail's public health this day as they did back then. What's even more recommendations made, what shape will Dreporter, André Picard, was less than sobering is that his observations don't only apply subsequent coverage take? Will media outlets be enthusiastic about the way journalists covered the to our coverage of the tainted blood crisis. Media dogged in their pursuit to ensure that tainted blood tragedy and its aftermath. Towards outlets have failed to advance public debate in the governments clean up the way they dole out the end of his talk, he reached a conclusion that aftermath of many inquiries and royal commissions. money, be it under the guise of regional could only be described as grim. If we take a look at some of the major inquiries development, tax breaks or consulting fees? If an "I think the coverage…of tainted blood in and commissions that have been held during the inquiry into the Air India disaster is called, will recent years — the retrospectives, the looking at last 20 years or so,media outlets have done a poor journalists scrutinize more critically the ways in what went wrong,the coverage of the inquiry — I job of holding institutions accountable for the which the RCMP and CSIS, the country's spy think that has been important and useful. I don't lessons they were supposed to have learned. Did agency, investigate major crimes? If past evidence want to debate that coverage at all. coverage of aborginal issues improve in the wake is anything to go by,the answer to both these "But in many cases,what the media (are) doing of the royal commission that examined the questions is no. today is little more than burying the dead. We're problems besetting our first peoples? No. Is our And the reason for this conclusion speaks to the not advancing the story, and I don't think we coverage of the military any better after the way the fourth estate operates. Journalism has should content ourselves with simply being Somalia inquiry, which was able to point to been described as history on the run, meaning morticians, looking back and saying wasn't this enough weaknesses in the Canadian military and that our coverage tends to be episodic. We live in terrible.And we shouldn't content ourselves with the way it handled information before the the moment. We report the accusations, the what I'm doing, saying we failed. I'm not Chrétien government shut it down? Not really. denials and the promises. But then when the dust convinced that the institutions at the heart of this Are we any better at understanding the settles, we move on, forgetting what the fuss was tragedy have learned from their mistakes, and weaknesses of the health care system after former all about. As a result, governments are able to unfortunately, I don't think that the media have Saskatchewan premier, Roy Romanow, and the conveniently ignore promises they made in the learned from our mistakes either." commission headed by Liberal Senator Michael wake of recommendations put forward by a Given the truth that Picard's words hold, he Kirby suggested avenues for reform? No. We still myriad inquiries and commissions. could have been making those comments at a carry stories about hospital wait times without In his assessment of the fourth estate's lack of recent conference. But he wasn't. His fully understanding who should be held ability to hold institutions accountable,American observations were part of a presentation he gave accountable.And we're still mired in the intractable social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich during a panel discussion at a Canadian debate about a two-tiered health care system. likened journalists to fire alarms, which are very Association of Journalists annual conference in This edition of Media magazine is being good at alerting people to a crisis,be it April 1994, roughly two months after the Krever published at a time when the families whose lives corruption, tainted blood or deplorable living Inquiry into the tainted blood scandal began were devastated by the Air India disaster are conditions of native people. Unfortunately, once holding hearings. calling for an inquiry after the suspects were the alarm has caught the attention of citizens, Justice Horace Krever was no shrinking violet. recently acquitted.In her assessment of the ruling media outlets move on to the next crisis, chasing He presided over testimony that called into that let the suspects walk, Vancouver Sun reporter someone else's agenda. Citizens are left to scratch question venerable institutions such as the Red Kim Bolan is incredulous about the decision,and their heads. Cross, and the federal and provincial feels, as do the families and many politicians, that It's really not supposed to be this way. Media governments that were supposed to ensure the there should be a public inquiry into the way this outlets constantly express a desire to set their own safety of our blood supply. He wanted to name 20-year investigation was handled — or, more agendas, examine key public policy issues in- names, lay blame. The Red Cross and accurately, mishandled. At press time, Deputy depth. And yet when you analyze the coverage, governments went to court to stop him. Does this Prime Minister Anne McLellan said she was outlets consistently fail to live up to their own sound familiar to an inquiry taking place right seeking advice on what to do. expectations. In our edition last fall, Media now into the federal sponsorship scandal? And, of course, there is the inquiry delving into published the results of a study that concluded When Krever finally got around to writing his the ad scandal that is responsible for denying Paul that newsgathering organizations spend more report, he recommended ways that institutions Martin his majority in the last federal election, time covering events then they do uncovering could avoid similar tragedies.
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