Spans 200 years of Australian mainstream media and examines how it misrepresents aboriginal peoples and affects race relations.
This book examines race relations in Australia through various media representations over the past 200 years. The early colonial press perpetuated the image of aboriginal people as framed by early explorers, and stereotypes and assumptions still prevail. Print and television news accounts of several key events in recent Australian history are compared and reveal how indigenous sources are excluded from stories about their affairs. Journalists wield extraordinary power in shaping the images of cultures and people, so indigenous people, like those in North America, have turned away from mainstream media and have acquired their own means of cultural production through radio, television, and multimedia. This study concludes with suggestions for addressing media practices to reconcile indigenous and non-indigenous people.
A print and broadcast journalist for 10 years before going academic, Meadows (journalism, Grittith U., Brisbane) analyzes how Australian journalism reports on Indigenous people and issues, arguing that professional practices have been complicit in creating and sustaining particular images of them both within Australia and throughout the world. He discusses the beginning of misrepresentation, the bicentenary, the Cape York Spaceport, the Native Title debate, and other topics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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