Monica

Michael Gartner’s essay “How the Monica Story Played in Mid-America” discussed how the media accurately portrayed and covered the 1998 Clinton-Monica scandal through its use of caution and the media’s strong reserve to only report the facts and not the irrelevant and sometimes vulgar gossip. The essay also discussed how the public felt that the story was high lighted and exposed too much and also how the public felt that the media over-reported on …

…devoted a lot of time to the issue, because the issue of impeachment and government scandal is a huge issue that affects the public because of its possible affect on what may become of the delinquent president and the after-effects of his impeachment. “Indeed, the responsibility of the press, as Yale law professor Stephen Carter said, “is not to give the American people what they want. It is instead to give people what they need.” (145)