5:30 pm 

Zoom 

This winter, the Atlantic Human Rights Centre, St. Thomas University's Department of Human Rights, St. Thomas University's Department of Journalism and Communications, the NB Media Co-op and RAVEN invite the public to the Human Rights & the Media Lecture Series. We will hear from scholars of the media and law, media makers and grassroots activists on how our media landscape is changing. We will hear about what they are doing to make this media landscape a more safe, just and equal space.

Nora Loreto, writer and editor of the Canadian Association of Labour Media (CALM), on her new book, Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Nora Loreto, writer and editor of the Canadian Association of Labour Media (CALM), will be kicking off the first lecture in the series on Tuesday, January 18 at 5:30 pm (Atlantic) by Zoom. She will be speaking on her new book, Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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About Spin Doctors from Fernwood

"As Canada was in the grips of the worst pandemic in a century, Canadian media struggled to tell the story. Newsrooms, already run on threadbare budgets, struggled to make broader connections that could allow their audience to better understand what was really happening, and why. Politicians and public health officials were mostly given the benefit of the doubt that what they said was true and that they acted in good faith.

This book documents each month of the first year of the pandemic and examines the issues that emerged, from racialized workers to residential care to policing. It demonstrates how politicians and uncritical media shaped the popular understanding of these issues and helped to justify the maintenance of a status quo that created the worst ravages of the crisis. Spin Doctors argues alternative ways in which Canadians should understand the big themes of the crisis and create the necessary knowledge to demand large-scale change."