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Big Oil's big shadow / MI 313

ON THIS WEEK'S ROUNDTABLE:

Media bias: something many suspect is at play in mainstream outlets. But proving it—that's a different story. Amidst the daily, dizzy churn that is the news cycle, finding a way to parse out and pin down reasonably comparable data isn't always obvious. But new research out of western Canada seems to have found a clever way around that: by looking at how different dailies treated the same original newswire stories within their respective papers. Spoiler alert: what you got to read depends on where you live. And the closer you lived to the oil sands, the less you're likely to see.

On this episode, host/producer Rick Harp and roundtable regular Candis Callison (Associate Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Graduate School of Journalism at UBC) sit down with Regan Boychuk, the political economist, roofer and researcher behind "Proximity to Power: The oilpatch & Alberta’s major dailies."

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LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS EPISODE:

• "Mike De Souza’s 20 Most Important Articles for Postmedia" (by Carol Linnitt): The Narwhal

• "Investigation launched into 'muzzling' of scientists by Harper government" MargaretMunro.wordpress.com

• Mike De Souza archive mikedesouza.com

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