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Sending a Message through Captain Canada's Punishment: News Media Coverage of the Patrice Cormier Hockey Violence Incident
- Journal of Sports Media
- University of Nebraska Press
- Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2013
- pp. 45-63
- 10.1353/jsm.2013.0007
- Article
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Abstract
In January 2010, Canadian Major Junior hockey player, Patrice Cormier, elbowed and injured an opposing player during a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League game. A discourse analysis of one hundred-two texts from five Canadian media sources highlights how the widespread media coverage of this incident constructed Cormier as a star player whose actions crossed the line of acceptable behavior and whose lengthy suspension and guilty plea to assault charges illustrated the unacceptability of his actions.
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