My lone answer is given grudgingly. Extramarital affairs should not be a public issue, but lying and hypocrisy in a candidate running for public office is definitely a public issue.
That's pretty close to what I feel. (Except for newspaper editors - I think that's my petty side coming out.) Really I don't care, but hypocrisy is something we need to know about in our political candidates.
I don't know how much of the Mosley affair has been reported on your side of the pond but the newspaper editors are a bit of a sore point right now. The News Of The World paid someone to record his BDSM session, went public, and has just lost the ensuing privacy case to the tune of £60,000 in damages and several times that in costs.
The result, and the immediate cause of my poll, is a bunch of papers whining about press freedom and the public interest (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7525103.stm), which it seems to me (and by the looks of it most of my readers) they have thoroughly confused with what the public is interested in.
The result, and the immediate cause of my poll, is a bunch of papers whining about press freedom and the public interest, which it seems to me (and by the looks of it most of my readers) they have thoroughly confused with what the public is interested in.
Whilst I (a) absolutely am with the majority of your readers, and (b) equally strongly hold that one does not punish the son for the sins of the father, I suspect that your readership is unlikely to be representative of the British public: though I don't know for certain, I would expect it to be biased towards the bourgeoisie. (Ye dogs, did I just use that word?)
Secondly, the tabloids (well, whatever the word is now they're all tabloid) aren't interested in representing the views of the British public, but in forming them: If they read that people believe X, it sways them towards holding that opinion themselves, to fit in with the herd.
(Cynical, but that's the way I think a lot of people work, to at least some degree.)
they have thoroughly confused with what the public is interested in.
Err, I'm quite interested in hot kinky sex sessions, I just don't think they should report them without consent. I would say that they have my interest spot on though ;-)
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I don't know how much of the Mosley affair has been reported on your side of the pond but the newspaper editors are a bit of a sore point right now. The News Of The World paid someone to record his BDSM session, went public, and has just lost the ensuing privacy case to the tune of £60,000 in damages and several times that in costs.
The result, and the immediate cause of my poll, is a bunch of papers whining about press freedom and the public interest (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7525103.stm), which it seems to me (and by the looks of it most of my readers) they have thoroughly confused with what the public is interested in.
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Whilst I (a) absolutely am with the majority of your readers, and (b) equally strongly hold that one does not punish the son for the sins of the father, I suspect that your readership is unlikely to be representative of the British public: though I don't know for certain, I would expect it to be biased towards the bourgeoisie. (Ye dogs, did I just use that word?)
Secondly, the tabloids (well, whatever the word is now they're all tabloid) aren't interested in representing the views of the British public, but in forming them: If they read that people believe X, it sways them towards holding that opinion themselves, to fit in with the herd.
(Cynical, but that's the way I think a lot of people work, to at least some degree.)
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(Anonymous) 2008-07-27 10:42 am (UTC)(link)Err, I'm quite interested in hot kinky sex sessions, I just don't think they should report them without consent. I would say that they have my interest spot on though ;-)
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