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...GARY HART'S sudden political demise calls for some serious self-examination not simply on Mr Hart's part, but on the part of the American public as well...
What arguements on the subject have so far overlooked is the role that the public has played in the unravelling of the Hart scandal. Ultimately, both the press and the candidates that it covers are answerable to a public with very definite ideas of what is acceptable and what is not. One may argue that the private behavior of a political candidate is immaterial to his public performance in office. Yet the candidates themselves use their private lives as selling points in glossy TV ads featuring their homes and families. So long as the public remains interested in candidates' characters...
Nevertheless, once the information of Hart's misconduct was known, to bury the story would have been an insult to the voting public. Representative democracy relies on the free and accurate dissemination of information; the press whenever possible should avoid passing prior judgement on what the public does and does not need to know. "Hear no evil, see no evil," may be appropriate for monkeys, but not for a democracy...
...easy to say that Hart's private life is irrelevant to his viability as a candidate; but so long as candidates advertise their character as key selling points, the press must publish the negative facts as well as the positive ones...
...states in one day, first at a renovated mill in New Hampshire. He then drove home to Boston to repeat the announcement on snow-Boston Common, before continuing to Atlanta and Des Moines. In Boston, pointing to Massachusetts' much touted economic revival, Dukakis took a jab at Candidate Gary Hart's "new ideas" campaign: "Ask more than whether we have new ideas. Ask whether we have already made new ideas work...