OBITUARY: Journalism as a weapon: The life of Patrick John Booth
Many countries have their Watergate moment, a scandal that envelopes not only mystery, intrigue, and human tragedy, but also something bigger, some kind of challenge to a country’s deepest beliefs about itself. What the US journalism scholar Michael Schudson called a country’s central moral values....
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oai:doaj.org-article:e3d20f4a1d3a4eb4a24f2d45a1b980372021-12-02T08:57:09ZOBITUARY: Journalism as a weapon: The life of Patrick John Booth10.24135/pjr.v24i1.4161023-94992324-2035https://doaj.org/article/e3d20f4a1d3a4eb4a24f2d45a1b980372018-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/416https://doaj.org/toc/1023-9499https://doaj.org/toc/2324-2035 Many countries have their Watergate moment, a scandal that envelopes not only mystery, intrigue, and human tragedy, but also something bigger, some kind of challenge to a country’s deepest beliefs about itself. What the US journalism scholar Michael Schudson called a country’s central moral values. For New Zealand, a good case could be made that our Watergate moment was the Thomas case. Like Watergate, it revealed ugly truths about corruption within some of our most respected institutions, and investigative journalism played a central role. Like Watergate, it was also a collective loss of innocence, and opened a very deep wound. James HollingsAsia Pacific Networkarticleinvestigative journalismjournalistNew ZealandobituaryPat BoothWatergateCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96Journalism. The periodical press, etc.PN4699-5650ENPacific Journalism Review, Vol 24, Iss 1 (2018) |
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Many countries have their Watergate moment, a scandal that envelopes not only mystery, intrigue, and human tragedy, but also something bigger, some kind of challenge to a country’s deepest beliefs about itself. What the US journalism scholar Michael Schudson called a country’s central moral values. For New Zealand, a good case could be made that our Watergate moment was the Thomas case. Like Watergate, it revealed ugly truths about corruption within some of our most respected institutions, and investigative journalism played a central role. Like Watergate, it was also a collective loss of innocence, and opened a very deep wound.
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