The SAI’s contact with the media has traditionally been a once a year feature. Friedberg (1991) gave the interesting example of an Israeli journalist who refers to the State Controller’s annual report as “The Annual Roar”, reminiscent of the lion appearing at the beginning of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movies – he roars to the right, he roars to the left, and in a gesture of defeat, he drops his head and disappears until the next movie.
The above quotation was taken from my book, “Improving Public Accountability: The Guyana Experience 1985-2007. A colleague of mine suggested that the Auditor General’s report should no longer be characterized an “annual roar” but rather a