Paying the price of infamy
Edition 3SUN 09 FEB 1997, Page 126 Paying the price of infamy By RICHARD FARMER WHEN you choose to take a job where you determine for people what is best for them, it should not surprise you that there is a price to be paid. Being in public life inevitably means that your life becomes far more public than that of an ordinary citizen. Even the politicians last week pretending outrage at the publication of some pictures embarrassing to one of their own would concede that much. Which is why the attack on the newspapers is for their invading the privacy of the wife of Senator Bob Woods rather than that of the resigning senator himself. Yet in truth it ever was, and ever will be, impossible to insulate the families of politicians from the consequences of the actions of the politicians. It is rather like, I suppose, that the families of a convicted murderer end up having to live with the embarrassment of having been close to the killer. It was not their fault that they were thrust in...