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Environmental justice: An exploratory snapshot through the lens of Canada's mainstream news media
Author(s) -
Deacon Leith,
Baxter Jamie,
Buzzelli Michael
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/cag.12223
Subject(s) - mainstream , newspaper , environmental justice , snapshot (computer storage) , political science , news media , media studies , sociology , law , computer science , operating system
Key Messages Disjunctures occur between what is covered by the Canadian news media and empirical studies of environmental threats to communities. Canadian newspapers overtly ignore and subtly downplay through discourse environmental threats to marginalized local communities faced with pollution. A wide array of avenues for future research are suggested to contrast different forms of news media and compare the scale of both coverage and discourse.