Abstract
Corruption is a widespread phenomenon and the media continue to play a pivotal role in
exposing it. Every now and then there is jubilation as media investigations bring intricate
exposés to the vast and widely dispersed media audiences, ensuring that perpetrators of
corruption are named, shamed and brought to book. The advent of technology has also taken
this to another level as it enables whistle-blowers to report corruption effectively and allows
journalists and other crime-bursting institutions to monitor and report corrupt activities
efficiently through surveillance and other intrusive techniques. Importantly, these significant
investigations and exposés by journalists continue to lend credibility to the grand narrative of
the media as the forth-estate and the concomitant rhetoric allusion of the media as the watchdog
of society...