Is public information always for the benefit of the country?

[Bentley Bullet]

With the news of imperial college epidemiologist Ian Ferguson breaking his own rules, is this another example of the desire of the press media to make it public knowledge more for its own benefit rather than that of the country?

[Glyn_Wigley]

It rather depends if you think it's in the interest of the country that the holder of a publicly-funded position of authority should be a hypocrite or not.

[Bentley Bullet]

It's not in the interest of the country to have a hypocrite in a position of authority, but it is much less in the interest of the country if information is publicised about them that could cost lives as a result.

[BillyStubbsTears]

BB. Agreed. A sensible media would have blacked out Johnson's cretinous comments about shaking hands on 3 March.

Regarding Ferguson, he is clearly a first class d**khead. It was interesting timing though, for the Tory party's in house newspaper to choose to break that story yesterday. As a result, not a single newspaper today led with the genuinely substantive news story of the day, that we had officially the highest CV-19 recorded death total in Europe, despite being one of the last countries to have the epidemic take hold. I'm sure it's a coincidence.

[wilts rover]

Why did it take a month for the news of that prof's lockdown breaking to come out? To use a Kier Starmer phrase 'what was so special about yesterday'?

[foxbat]

Historians looking at the CV_19 timeline will find it hard to beleive the corresponding MSM newspaper headlines . I think the S(c)u(m) n had a big pair of tits on the front as their diversion tactic.

[IDM]

Which pair.?

Trump and Johnson.?