Questions of privacy
04/06/04 11:49 Ethics
Now it may just be me, but I'm not actually all that
interested in whether Lord Coe has fathered an
aborted child out of wedlock. That's beside the
point. The important question is whether it's in the
public interest that he did so.
Personally I can't see why it should be, but the Sunday Mirror clearly disagreed. The judge's view was that Coe's ex-girlfriend Vanessa Lander had the right to expression and the papers had the right to publish.
It all seems rather distateful, though, when the 'right to expression' has to be coaxed out by a reported five figure sum. Not so much a right, more a bid to make some fast bucks.
Personally I can't see why it should be, but the Sunday Mirror clearly disagreed. The judge's view was that Coe's ex-girlfriend Vanessa Lander had the right to expression and the papers had the right to publish.
It all seems rather distateful, though, when the 'right to expression' has to be coaxed out by a reported five figure sum. Not so much a right, more a bid to make some fast bucks.
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