Some believe that personal information about what politicians do when they are not working should not be the content of newspaper articles. This essay disagrees with this as the public should know if their officials are doing anything illegal and this subject is only written about in exceptional circumstances. Firstly, a country’s citizens deserve to know if politicians are engaged in any illicit activities. During elections, candidates always promote themselves as honest and law-abiding citizens, so when this is not the case, it is necessary for journalists to reportthe truth for everyone to know, and this generally leads to the appropriate penalty being applied. For example, in Toronto it was reported that their mayor was partaking in the use of illegal substances and after the release of this news, an outcry from the public resulted in his dismissal. Furthermore, newspapers only report on the private lives of politicians if they have done something wrong. Unlike the li...