Shouldn't our leaders be directing our thoughts to important topics rather than getting trapped into mudslinging?
Do we really want our top police officers to resign rather than have their knuckles rapped?
George Monbiot directs our thoughts to a contradiction if we are really serious about global warming:
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Make your mind up- do you want Murdocks evil empire stopped or not?
"Evil empire" is a bit over the top isn't it?
Didn't he get his empire because he is good a sussing out what a large number of people wanted.
In which case who is evil - him for supplying or them for wanting and buying?
I believe there is some good and bad in everyone. Good leaders are few. They are valuable - they just need a nudge now and again to keep on the straight and narrow. Why ditch them for one maybe small side of their character.
To ask them to resign indicates that their mistakes pervade the whole of what they do so that we cannot conceive of them ever doing something right.
As I've argued before (Shoesmith) firing people is too much like a kneejerk reaction and smacks of the Lynch mob way of making decisions.
Can't we instead have a middle of the road approach rather than swinging from one extreme to another?
Yes, indeed. While all this mud-slinging is going on (is it really going anywhere until the Police investigations have been done?) terrible things are happening in the world involving life and death, suffering on a huge scale which defies our ability to fully grasp. Things are happening closer to home too, even if far less dramatic.
It's an easy defence and one which tabloid journalists are all too keen to fall back on, but Murdoch doesn't just feed the demand, he creates it.
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations." - Pulitzer
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