A newspaper columnist recently caused outrage by unleashing a volley of insults at Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, which portrayed her as less than human. On BBC Radio’s Moral Maze this week, my colleagues and I discussed whether this was symptomatic of a wider culture which rewards extreme and unkind opinions. Does a newspaper need to be kind to the people it writes about, or is its overriding duty to tell the truth and present an honestly-held opinion? Is kindness the greatest virtue that overrides any others?
My fellow panellists were Giles Fraser, Tim Stanley and Ash Sarkar. Our witnesses were Nana Akua, presenter at GB News; Alice Watkins, Senior Campaigns and Research Officer for “Hacked Off”; Edith Hall, professor of philosophy at Durham University; and Emily Kasriel, senior visiting research fellow at King's College Policy Institute.
You can listen to the show on BBC iPlayer here.
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