WSJ article: The Weiner scandal highlights how there is very little separation between private transgressions and public and professional fallout.
"Anthony Weiner admitted to sending sexually suggestive photographs and messages to six women online over three years and lying about his behavior."
"Weiner joins a disturbingly long line of public figures (Eliot Spitzer, John Ensign, Christopher Lee, Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Edwards, Mark Sanford, Bill Clinton and on and on) behaving badly in their private lives."
"The Weiner scandal, like those that have come before, highlight that in this age, when public figures send personal musings (and lewd images) from their official Twitter and email accounts, there really is very little separation between private transgressions and public and professional fallout. Indeed, what made the recent Schwarzenegger revelations so surprising was not that he had fathered a son with his housekeeper, but that he had managed to hide it for a decade."
Secrets eventually come out. Today, they just come out quicker.
Full article at:
http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2011/06/07/anthony-weiner-mixing-business-with-pleasure/
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