POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Sponsorship Scandal, Watchdog Journalism, Rob Ford
7 Jun 2014
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This section of the course considers the watchdog role/function of the media in politics. The case of sponsorship scandal in canada (the framing gomery reading) is a demonstration of elite abuse of power and is a good case of the press fulfilling its watchdog role (although the coverage itself was problematic). However, a great deal of what we refer to as watchdog style journalism focuses on what might be considered the private misbehaviour of political elites. Cases in point include but are no means limited to the sex scandals in finnish politics (the. Politics of sexting reading), the ongoing behaviour of mayor rob ford and clinton-lewinsky scandal in the late 1990s. Scandals have story telling interest to get more attention, sensational. 20% of all volume of government in the year of the clinton-lewinsky affair, more attention than pakistan & india had detonated nuclear power.
