PROJECT PROPOSAL (5%)

MEDA18621G: The Media and Current Events

Sheridan College | Prof: Rolla Bahsous

Grade: ____/5 = ____%

Team Members Names (First & Last):
1. Abhi Gupta
2. Jashanpreet Kaur
3. Gaganpreet Kaur Bajwa

Presentation Topic: The Covid-19 pandemic portrayal in American news vs. Canadian news
outlets. What is different? What is the same? Most importantly: WHY?
Group Thesis/Main Argument (1 mark):
The main argument our group presents is that, how critical situation of COVID-19 was used by
US media to earn profit by faking various arguments like heart diseases and forced vaccination,
education sector went down to a whole different level and how people were fired from jobs
without any prior notices, while here in Canada it was a whole lot better because things were
much more organised and media houses helped people instead of focusing on earning profit
out on fake news and sudden uproars.

Group member, Media Examples, Course Concepts and Research: (3 marks)

Each member must choose a media example (news article, show, film, scene, news clip, etc.) to
analyze using two course concepts. Be sure analysis supports the group’s overall thesis. Each
group member must use one research source to support their analysis.
Group Media Course Concepts to use in Research source (reference in APA)
analyzing Media Example
Member Examples
(Name)

ABHI GUPTA Media 1. How US media stereotyped o Bolivian Minister of Foreign Trade and
Example 1: the vaccines by linking them
News with cardiac diseases and other
Articles side effects whereas in Canada
they were shown as a positive
source which could save millions
of lives.
2. How people in US and Canada
were forced to take COVID – 19
vaccines without their consent
and employers threatening the
workers and government passing
new rules that people will lose
their licenses, jobs, and homes if
they do not get vaccinated. This
was deemed as the violation of
the most basic human rights
written in every country’s
constitution.
Integration, Aljazeera News
(September 28, 2021)
https://aje.io/w9zsp6
o Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical
Correspondent (Updated: Thursday,
June 10, 2021)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/09/h
ealth/myocarditis-covid-vaccination-
link-clearer
o Jason Hanna and Madeline Holcombe,
CNN (Updated: Friday, July 30, 2021)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/29/h
ealth/us-coronavirus-thursday/index.
html
o Sarah Maslin Nir, The New York Times
(Published October 24, 2021; Updated
October 30, 2021)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/2
4/nyregion/new-york-workers-refuse-
vaccine.html?smid=url-share
o John Letzing, Digital Editor, Strategic
Intelligence, World Economic Forum
(January 31, 2022)
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/20
22/01/are-covid-19-vaccine-
mandates-a-human-rights-violation/
o Adam Miller, CBC News (Posted:

Gaganpreet Media 1. Employment growth in
Kaur Bajwa Example 2: Canada was quick as compared
News to America in different sectors.
Articles
2. In Canada more employment
was created by working from
home whereas, in America less
jobs were done from home.
Jashanpreet Media 1. How news sources approach
February 12, 2022; Last Updated:
February 12, 2022)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/can
ada-vaccine-mandate-passport-covid-
19-omicron-boosters-1.6349038
o Transport Canada, (Date modified:
October 30, 2021)
https://www.canada.ca/en/transport-
canada/news/2021/10/mandatory-
covid-19-vaccination-requirements-
for-federally-regulated-
transportation-employees-and-
travellers.html
o Sean Clarke and Andrew, Statistics
Canada (Release date: December 22,
2022)
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/
36-28-0001/2022012/article/00001-
eng.htm
o Sean Clarke and Vincent Hardy,
Statistics Canada (August 24, 2022)
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pu
b/36-28-0001/2022008/article/00001
-eng.htm
 Jaclyn Layton, Statistics Canada
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2. The Coronavirus pandemic is
influencing kids' requirements
and scholastic execution,
particularly for impeded
gatherings, through school
terminations and remote
learning difficulties, with long
haul ramifications for instructive
accomplishment.

How this topic relates to our course (1 mark):

This topic related indirectly with our course because it is how someone perceives information,
as it is up to a person to believe if the news or the other things, he/she thinks are actually true
or false. Everyone will have different views; our group choose this topic because the articles
published during the actual COVID times were in a sense totally biased and many of them have
been removed from the internet, but many are still there. And biases are an important part of
our course because nowadays maximum (all) of the big media companies are biased towards a
particular wing (right or left) and we are supposed to tell if something is false or promoting
something in particular or not. For example: There was this case during post COVID times when
a person on a beach in US died after a shark attack and during autopsy the reason of death was
concluded as COVID-19 while it should have been fatal attack by shark.