Friday Philosophy

There's always a debate over whether the media should be more respectful of elected officials, and it's easy to identify cases where they go too far in the other direction. But generally speaking, I think Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948), former Supreme Court Justice, had the right idea:

"Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,
and the public must know of it, that it may mete out
justice.... Publicity is a great purifier because it sets
in action the forces public opinion, and in this country
public opinion controls the course of the nation."