Re mores and values...
What can one say about this? Was Mark Whitney a moral man, Marian Martin a moral woman?
Ayn Rand, a well know example, had already dispensed with ethics of this kind around that time, in favor of what she called rational self interest. Cf The Fountainhead, Gary Cooper.
"Tuesday, October 13, 2015
RE DREW PEARSON FALLACY
"Another unfortunate species of chicken bred thirty years ago has also come home to roost in the Republican coop this week: the idea that politicians' sex lives are newsworthy. Republican lawmakers, it seems, received emails accusing their leader, Kevin McCarthy, of having an affair with a Republican colleague. She denied it, but there is no way of knowing whether it played a role in his decision to give up the speakership. I have no idea whether the accusation was true, but a government composed of people who have never been guilty of an affair would be chosen on a very poor basis. I for one do not want it." DK"
Nothing new here, really, just another layer of the artichoke of the media market place being peeled back.
Nothing new here, really, just another layer of the artichoke of the media market place being peeled back.
Terms search Lorch, Drew Pearson fallacy, muckraking
No comments:
Post a Comment