The Hypocrisy Of The Media

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Congress can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of society.” He reasons, therefore, that Bush’s possible confession that he used cocaine when he was young should force him, his supporters and the rest of us to do some hard thinking.
What Mr. Taylor presents for his readers is actually a straw man. Arguments surrounding Bush’s, “unspecified young and irresponsible escapades,” and in light of his later stand on youthful penalties, and thus his supposed hypocrisy, are contrived to shift the public’s view from the more important concerns regarding the exercises of his public responsibilities. Is the argument truly about the public’s right to know, and that impact on the character issue, or is it more about the media justifying sensationalism.
When one considers that recent media frenzy concerning publicly elected figures is a relatively new journalistic phenomena that developed with the growth and ...

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