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Apr. 17th, 2004 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
harahelI was just reading Oscar Wilde's "soul of man" an essey on socilism and came across this quote that was so accurate, it made me blink, hard.
"The harm is done by the serious, thoughtful, earnest jounalits, who solemenly, as they are doing at present, will drag before the eyes of the public some incident in the private life of a great statemsna, of a man who is a leader of policitcal thought as he is a creator of political force and invite the pulbic to discuss the incident, to exercise authority in the matter, to give their views and not merely to give their views, but to carry them into action, to dicatate to the man upon all other poins, to dictate to his party, to dictate to his country, in fact to make themselves ridiculous, offenseive and harmful. The private lives of men and women should not be told to the public. The public has nothing to do with them at all."
This was written 1891. Amazing how we've forgotten anything we learned.
"The harm is done by the serious, thoughtful, earnest jounalits, who solemenly, as they are doing at present, will drag before the eyes of the public some incident in the private life of a great statemsna, of a man who is a leader of policitcal thought as he is a creator of political force and invite the pulbic to discuss the incident, to exercise authority in the matter, to give their views and not merely to give their views, but to carry them into action, to dicatate to the man upon all other poins, to dictate to his party, to dictate to his country, in fact to make themselves ridiculous, offenseive and harmful. The private lives of men and women should not be told to the public. The public has nothing to do with them at all."
This was written 1891. Amazing how we've forgotten anything we learned.
