“…Nel, 1998;Greer, 1999;Ekström, 2001;Clayman, 2002;Heritage, 2002a;Brokensha, 2002a;Emmertsen, 2007). With regards to the last point, it should be noted that various studies have called the objectivity of news reporting into question (Ekström, 2001;Weizman, 2006;Stenvall, 2008). In the case of political news, in particular, journalists may feel justified in adopting a more hostile approach, as noted by Nel (1994: 197): '[s]uccessful politicians did not get to be successful politicians by being dumb enough to tell reporters the truth'.…”