The reason we're getting involved is because it's about sex, and probably about people having more sex than we are. FILE PHOTO
The reason we're getting involved is because it's about sex, and probably about people having more sex than we are. FILE PHOTO
AMONG my journalism colleagues, there is debate about how far we should go, as media, with the computer hack on the "affairs" website Ashley Madison.
At the moment media is getting into what job types are being uncovered, including school teachers.
Generally speaking, affairs aren't newsworthy. It isn't illegal andit's pretty commonplace. The risk is your own.
Traditionally media got involved when the affair involved a public figure, or reeked of hypocrisy. Public figures, like political leaders, were expected to be above tawdry pleasures of the flesh, because a leader can't be seen to be vulnerable and compromised - or distracted.
Equally, a moral campaigner who commits an affair is hypocritical - it's a fall from grace.
The public, who generally don't like outspoken moralists, delight in disgrace.
The reason we're getting involved is because it's about sex, and probably about people having more sex than we are. But the new, fresh angle is that there's a website out there that turns an immoral act into a matter of convenience.
Dating is rife with cheaters. Online dating has got plenty of people who are about as sincere about wanting "Mr/Miss Right" as a wet T-shirt competition.
