WATCHING THE WATCHDOG: SPOTLIGHTING INDECENT ELECTION CAMPAIGN LANGUAGE ON RADIO

This book reports the findings of the nine-month monitoring exercise (April 1 to December 29, 2012). The findings are presented below under the following broad sections: general findings; expressions used; political affiliations of culprits, the gender factor, radio station performances and a comparison of the quarterly findings.

For the nine-month period, 2,850 programmes were monitored on the 31 radio stations selected for the project. A total of 509 indecent expressions were coded on the 2,850 programmes monitored. The programmes on which indecent expressions were recorded were predominantly political discussion programmes which were mostly aired in the morning and evening/night.

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