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As a Brit, I am well used to muck-raking by the press. Howveer shitty Fox news might be it pales to the work of amateurs when set against the filth that is our tabloid press.
We've seen some truly revolting stories paraded through the press. And, honestly, the claim to something being in the public interest has only occasionally been satisfactorily made. Several politicians have had their careers utterly wrecked by press stories that dug up stuff from their youth. And yeah, sometimes I've read them and thought, yah....bastard that you are, you clearly always were. But it still isn't fair, I don't think. Not unless it relates directly to something they're involved with in the present.
Because, whilst this time it's a truly horrible bullying incident, the next time it might be that teenage shoplifting incident, or the college DUI. Neither of which I personally consider anywhere near as troubling as the bullying but which could seriously damage a career nonetheless.
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05-11-2012, 12:08 PM
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