How I sanitized the feminist outrage over the Montreal massacre
December 7, 2015 2:28 PM Subscribe
On the 26th anniversary of the December 6, 1989 École Polytechnique massacre in Montreal, Ottawa Citizen columnist Shelley Page wrote: Looking back, I fear I sanitized the event of its feminist anger and then infantilized and diminished the victims, turning them from elite engineering students who’d fought for a place among men into teddy-bear loving daughters, sisters and girlfriends.
Twenty-five years later, as I re-evaluate my stories and with the benefit of analysis of the coverage that massacre spawned, I see how journalists— male and female producers, news directors, reporters, anchors — subtly changed the meaning of the tragedy to one that the public would get behind, silencing so-called “angry feminists.”
Twenty-five years later, as I re-evaluate my stories and with the benefit of analysis of the coverage that massacre spawned, I see how journalists— male and female producers, news directors, reporters, anchors — subtly changed the meaning of the tragedy to one that the public would get behind, silencing so-called “angry feminists.”
This post was deleted for the following reason: Looks like we saw this last year. -- cortex
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