Current Affairs Sting journalism in Czech politics: pursuing the news, or generating it?

10-09-2008 15:49 | Jan Richter

Civic Democrat MP Jan Morava resigned on Tuesday after being exposed as being ready to use staged photos to blackmail a party rival. But the case has raised some serious questions: can sting journalism be justified if it is used to illustrate some of the shadier practices of Czech politics? Or did the journalists in this case go too far?

Photo: Hospodářské noviny, 8.9.08 Photo: Hospodářské noviny, 8.9.08   Back

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