Watching the Watchdog: Journalism's Complicit Role in Sexual Abuse
Tim Knight
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Posted 07.14.2012
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Canada
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Last Sunday came yet another T.V. documentary detailing alleged abuse of young boys by Roman Catholic priests. As a journalist I investigated all sorts of stories about abuse of power. But, to my shame, it never occurred to me to investigate those rumours I'd heard so many years before about sexual abuse and the Catholic church in Newfoundland and Labrador.
