Abstract
U.S. media have long ignored Canada. However, when Quebec came close to voting for secession from the rest of Canada in 1995, it was front-page news in major U.S. newspapers and a big story in news magazines and on network TV newscasts. Yet, the election a year earlier that had set the stage for the secession referendum was largely ignored. Both events contained the elements that gatekeeping studies say predict coverage such as proximity, relevance, implications for trade and threat to the United States, yet the coverage differed markedly.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.