Scrum Wars: The Prime Ministers and the MediaThe image of the scrum -- a beleaguered politican surrounded by jockeying reporters -- is central to our perception of Ottawa. The modern scrum began with the arrival of television, but even in Sir John A. Macdonald's day, a century earlier, reporters in the parliamentary press gallery had waited outside the prime minister's office, pen in hand, hoping for a quote for the next edition. The scrum represents the test of wills, the contest of wits, and the battle for control that have characterized the relationship between Canadian prime ministers and journalists for more than 125 years. Scrum Wars chronicles this relationship. It is an anecdotal as well as analytical account, showing how earlier prime ministers like Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Wilfrid Laurier were able to exercise control over what was written about their administrators, while more recent leaders like John Diefenbaker, Joe Clark, John Turner, and Brian Mulroney often found themselves at the mercy of intense media scrutiny and comment. |
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... Quebec, Canada Dundurn Press acknowledges the following for their permission to use extended quotations from copyrighted works: One~Eyed Kings copyright © 1986 by Ron Graham. Published in Canada by Collins Publishers Ltd. Excerpts are ...
... Quebec constitutional crisis that had exploded five days earlier, on March 2. The province's Liberal-appointed lieutenant-governor, Luc Letellier de St. Just, had dismissed the Conservative administration of Charles de Boucherville over ...
... Quebec after the hanging of Louis Riel in 1885. Such pressures eventually caused more and more papers to split from the party on some controversial or unpopular issues, and in some cases to declare their independence outright. Macdonald ...
... Quebec Conservative Joseph Mousseau on the history of Canada, on whether or not a now-departed George-Etienne Cartier had been a coward during the Lower Canadian rebellion of 1837 (he hadn't been), and on why French Canadian ...
... Quebec, and the Maritimes and was retold and published by Grit editors eager to join the slanderous attack. From every little Liberal printing press, John A. was denounced as the devil, as dishonest, and as a drunk.23 Conservative ...
Contents
No League of Gentlemen 19141956 | 83 |
Illustrations | 104 |
The Unofficial Opposition 19571992 | 207 |
Notes | 365 |
Bibliography | 380 |
Index | 383 |