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Do we need a press council?

Victor · 2002-02-28 16:38:10

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2002/0228/531135135DASEANAD1.html This article was in today' Irish Times. It raises an important issue on how much should the media and the public know about politicians (Clinton / Lewinsky - their business, but he shouldn't have lied on oath) and other peoples lives (the supermodel…

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http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2002/0228/531135135DASEANAD1.html

This article was in today' Irish Times. It raises an important issue on how much should the media and the public know about politicians (Clinton / Lewinsky - their business, but he shouldn't have lied on oath) and other peoples lives (the supermodel coming out of the detox centre come to mind). And whatever about those who normally court publicity what about their families and ordinary Joes (the case of Leo Blair having the MMR vaccine comes to mind).

The flip side of this is the media portraying certain boy bands as role models when they are actually violent alcoholics and the press ignoring Haughey's affair while he denounced the 1986 Divorce Referendum.

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