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Matt Cooper: Varadkar video shows the fine line between invasion of privacy and the public interest
Most of the traditional media didn’t print what was widely available on social media, but were they complicit in a conspiracy of silence, protecting Varadkar from public scrutiny, or were they showing the necessary discretion?
Two newspapers last Sunday (not this one) could not resist the temptation to let their readers know. The daily newspapers from the previous Sunday onwards (with one exception) had resisted when the video footage had circulated on social media, as had multiple broadcasters. We knew, but didn’t tell.
The story could have broken to a wider audience, the one not served by social media, earlier. At a regular press conference, one reporter from the Irish ...
