Scrum Wars: The Prime Ministers and the Media By Allan Levine
Publisher: Dundurn Press 1996-08-08 | 392 Pages | ISBN: 1550021915 | PDF | 26 MB
Publisher: Dundurn Press 1996-08-08 | 392 Pages | ISBN: 1550021915 | PDF | 26 MB
The 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.