Mark Cuban comments on the nature of internet publicity
He has a very interesting point. With the advent of the Internet what we can find out about a person loses all context. My thinking is that this is going to have to change how we treat public figures. This is no longer a world where Gary Hart has to challenge the press to catch him cheating. Instead in our brave new world anyone with a camera stands a chance of changing a politicians future.
I believe that our culture is just going to have to get a little more tolerant of our public figures private lives. Because with anyone's 'private life' standing a very good chance today of getting captured on film and shared digitally across the world, in 20 years when people want to run for office those images will come to the fore. It's one thing for current politicians to say they never partied or drank etc. But the politicians of the future are going to have to find a different approach, because pretty much everything you do has a chance of being captured on film, either intentionally or unintentionally. And like it or not, young people will drink, have fun and occasionally do something dumb, it's just that there's a very good chance it will get captured on film.
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