When Should the Watchdogs Bark?: Media Coverage of the Clinton Scandals

by S. Robert Lichter and Larry J. Sabato

What were the differences between the three scandals that shook the Clinton administration in the winter of 1993-94? What issues of character and competence were at stake in the allegations brought against the President in the course of the Whitewater hearings, by the troopers who served as his personal bodyguards when he was governor, and in the sexual harassment suit pursued by Paula Corbin Jones? What accounts for the reaction of the mainstream...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964387700
• ISBN13: 9780964387706
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Much Needed Book For Analysis of Modern Journalism

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