摘要：The author reviews the roles of media and criticisms of those roles in Quebec's 1970 October Crisis. Comparing these with studies of other crises, he identifies a recurring pattern in each : Media present themselves as observers, become involved as actors, engage in a limited form of self-criticism, and are subject to severe criticisms, which they reject. In view of the regularity of this pattern, the author concludes that it is not the ad hoc performance of media in particular instances that is at issue, but the very power of media itself.
