Staying with the base and primitive emotions that encourage us to detest the rich and powerful, Deborah Orr in The Guardian (in a good article on the deeper cultural malaise of which hacking was but a part) says that: ‘…for many years there has been widespread acquiescence to the idea that it's reasonable, even necessary, to punish imperfect humans for their success or wealth.’ She makes other prescient points, most importantly about the way we, as readers, legitimised the sickening behaviour of newspapers by allowing them to expose things which we had no business knowing.
Timothy Garton Ash is also good on what the long-term implications could (and should) be.
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