At 07:32 7/02/98 +0000, you wrote:
>>>Head and Heart always leaves me divided. I think that Lynda did the
>>>right thing. What Mr Winters did was wrong and made him a hypocrite
>>>when he joinded the commitee. But that doesn't meen that he wasn't a
>>>great head master.
>>>
>>>Natacha
>
>>I am not sure if she did the right thing. If I was her I probably would
>>have published the story, unsensationalised and I would not have put it on
>>the front page because it would be a good story.
>
>Lynda did print in unsensationalised, but it was front page news -
>unfortunatly the Junior Gazette was a small local paper and that made
>it big news.
Yes, I know but if Lynda hadn't treated it like big news it wouldn't have
been such big news.
>
>>However the other thing that I also believe is that it was really an issue
>>that should have been sorted out with his wife. Also the fact he had done
>>that interview didn't really change the issue much. School principals say
>>anything to get publicity for the school.
>
>sorry to get pedantic on you but the interview was to promote a
>commitee/program he was chairing about respocibility about sex. Which
>he was not doing.
I agree that he is being a hypocrite but everyone is a hypocrite at times.
It was stupid of him to publicise that commitee thing at the time he was
having an affaire and he lied about having a happy marriage but that in
itself is no reason to punish him severely. It would be inhuman to expect
that he is always honest and selfless just because he is the school
principal. The real issue is his affaire, not the fact that he was trying to
get students to be sensible about love. He may even be trying to promote
stable relationships because he is unhappy caught between two women ie.
trying to prevent his students ruining thier lives like he had ruined his.
>> However Mr Winters was
>>really digging his own grave by doing that interview.
>>Speaking of digging his own grave, Lynda would not have published the story
>>if Mr Winters denied having an affair when she and Colin went to visit him.
>>Lynda had said that Colin was not a reliable source, so she went to Mr
>>Winters to check her sources.
>sorry to get pedantic again but the sorce for the story after the
>intereiw was Miss Clarke not Mr Winters. I think Lynda was looking
>for his side of the story when she went to see him - maybe to explain
>why it happened. I think she was lookin gfor somthing more than "I
>made a mistake etc"
You may be right about Miss Clarke being the source, I had forgotten that
she also did a strokematic advertisment. However it didn't really make it
clear that she was the source. Unless Lynda guessed that as she did that
advertisment, talking about her heart breaking split with you-know-who, then
the affair must be true. This would be very irresponsible of her because
even if it wasn't true, Miss Clarke may have (under Colin's advice) said
that anyway so she could make her debut into bimbo stardom. However, if you
are right, Natacha that was good of Lynda to explain to Mr Winters before
the paper was printed so he could explain to his wife.
>>Sorry if this sounds a bit confused but this is a complex issue and there
>>are no easy answers.
>
>Definatly, but once you stop practacing what you preach you become a
>hypocrite and if you have compramised one of your priciples then you
>can compromise them all.
>
>Natacha
Just because you are inconsistant over one issue it does not mean that you
are going to be inconsistant about everything. For example even Steven
Moffat gets a few things a bit wrong, and admits it (for example the thing
about Spikes family history). This of course does not mean that the whole
series is inconsistant. As we all know it is still brilliant
Emily Hunt
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