The media are picking scabs with coverage of latest Oka Crisis , CBC, by Taiorenhote Dan David, Mohawk writer, veteran journalist
▻https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/oka-crisis-tension-media-coverage-1.5218368
It’s all accurate. The stuff about tobacco shacks, pot shops and toxic dumps. Most of it’s fair and somewhat balanced. But it lacks context. I call it picking at scabs, because they’re pulling off what’s on the surface but not examining the festering wounds underneath.
Most of the journalism I’ve seen and heard this past week has lots of who, what, when and where but precious little of the why.
Why are tobacco and cannabis shops the foundation for a small-business economy at Kanesatake?
Why are dumps at Kanesatake unregulated?
Why does Mayor Quevillon use these as insults and ugly stereotypes to encourage racial hatreds when the issue is about an “ecological gift” of land to the Mohawk?
