4. The Referendum on Quebec Television: Broadcast Rules and Content Frames

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Referendum Actors and Journalistic Practices
6. 1. The Referendum Actors and Issues in Historical Perspective 25
7. 2. Journalistic Ethics and Referendum Coverage in Montreal 37
8. Part II: Constructing the Interpretive Grid: 'Framing• the Referendum as Election
9. 3. Television and Electoral Coverage: Changing Rules 55
10. 4. The Referendum on Quebec Television: Broadcast Rules and Content Frames 84
11. Part III: Situating the Narrative: French/English Understandings of Quebec Nationalism
12. 5. Press Interpretations: Distilling the White Paper and Beige Paper Versions of 'Nationalism' 109
13. 6. Interpreting the White Paper on Television 133
14. Part IV: Exploring the Argumentation: Rhetorical Processes in Public Opinion Creation
15. 7. 'The Day After': Explaining the Referendum Outcome to French- and English-Speaking Montrealers 159
16. 8. Rethinking News, Public Opinion, and Democratic Politics in Quebec and Canada 184
17. APPENDIXES
18. Appendix A. Chronology of Events Leading to the Referendum 223
19. APPENDIX B. Visual Content Categories 227
20. Appendix C. The Coding Scheme 229
21. Appendix D. English Vox-Pop Interviews 231
22. Appendix E. French Vox-Pop Interviews 237
23. Bibliography 241
24. Author Index 255
25. Subject Index 259