Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Politicians and truth

We must communicate to politicians that we don’t expect 100% perfection but we do expect 100% truth. In this way we give politicians permission to tell the truth even when they might otherwise fear the public response. Making a case for a move away from the reigning assumption of spin towards a radical assumption of truth is very important, and a crucial one to democracy and just government.

Paul Chaplin
"The lie of perfection" in catapult magazine

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

In NZ......??


http://www.american.com/archive/2010/october/new-zealand-great-regression

Mike Crowl said...

One lives in hope.
Interesting article - thanks for the link.