Hypocrisy epidemic
Published:Tuesday | June 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM
THE EDITOR, Sir:
WE IN this country are suffering from a hypocrisy epidemic. The media and the private sector, which, if you think about it, are one and the same, are just as bad as the politicians. The academics and the trade unions are not much better.
All of a sudden, the private sector is calling on both political parties to come clean. This is after the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica bank-rolled deception into their neighbouring property on Hope Road - Jamaica House. Do they have the integrity to admit that taking a harder position on issues of national decency might lose for them the choice position of puppeteer?
The journalists are calling for transparency, even while many who now sit in newsrooms quietly turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to stories of colleagues who took sides, and carried lines in the last elections and beyond. It is even whispered in news circles that such actions won some a ticket out of the newsroom and others a little top-up. Do the media have the decency to openly discuss or investigate these issues of its own integrity? Will this even be published? Is the media fully free?
silent academics
Some academics who once had a lot of 'mouth' have now shifted their weight from their left leg to their right leg, either openly or clandestinely. Others are culpable by omission - the silence is deafening. The trade unions are very quiet. What happened to all that gumption built up over the last 80 years? Is there integrity in your silence? Have you forgotten who your constituents are? Meanwhile, the voiceless majority continues to suffer.
You all have the gall to talk about integrity? You all have the temerity to talk about decency? Such talk from a nation that accepted an insincere apology from a man that deceived our nation and the rest of the world and moved on to business as usual.
This nation has a lot on its conscience, and perhaps, deserves the leadership it has embraced. God help us!
I am, etc.,
Janice Hunter