With another public outing and a public confession, the other shoe has just dropped.
This is turning into a morality play, but in truth, it's playing with real lives beyond the stage.
It almost feels like the most intrusive reality show to play out on the international stage yet. And it could turn tragic as emotions escalate with each public disclosure.
Why has this become news to out people on the membership list if no laws have been broken?
Do news outlets realize that there are families and children involved in many of these situations?
Possible links to suicide are now being reported. Why has it blown up into such a scandal?
When a legitimate news organization outs someone on the Ashley Madison membership list it changes everything.
It is equal to outing someone's private information or outing someone who is gay.
For what gain? To ruin people? Why is this acceptable for any professional news organization to go on a witch hunt for public names? Why is any news organization knowingly ruining lives over memberships or activity on Ashley Madison and/or Adult Friend Finder? Why?
Case in point: A famous attorney in Florida.
The East Orlando Post outed State Attorney Jeff Ashton as a paying member of Ashley Madison.
To make matters worse, Ashton responded by holding a real press conference with the news media saying he broke no laws. Then, he took questions from the media and admitted that he will prosecute any government employee who illegally used a government credit card to pay for a membership to Ashley Madison. That public promise about a hypothetical situation just opened a door for further investigation of all government employees. Why did he take additional questions from the media making matters worse? To remind everyone that he didn't do anything illegal, but if other people took it one step further than him, that he will prosecute? Talk about a media misstep. Watch this press conference on the New York Daily News site. It is unbelievable the questions being asked by the mainstream legitimate media.
Furthermore, anyone who is working in a courthouse or court of law should know that they can't access nor be active on any dating site or potentially pornographic website while using their wi-fi.
I've served on jury duty in Los Angeles. When you use your computer in the jury waiting room at the courthouse, you are warned on your computer screen that everything you look at while at the courthouse is being monitored. That includes a warning for attorneys, all employees and guests in the state's building. Why in the world would people bypass that warning that appears on your computer screen? Why would a state's attorney bypass that warning?
Stupidity or not, the East Orlando Post has now created a slippery slope by outing a state's attorney by name. This opens the door for professional news organizations to out more public names. This gives the stamp of approval to force Joe Public to go public while Joe Private should remain private.
However, another public outing means that Joe Privates are now either confessing to their significant other or considering it. Some wives have accepted the confessions and decided to move forward, while other wives have kicked their husbands out of the home. One man writes online about telling his kids daddy has a last minute business trip out-of-town, when the truth is that he's moved out of the family home and into a hotel.
The mainstream media had a choice and they've made it.
Now, the question is not: "Are these public outings right or wrong?"
Instead, it has just transformed into: "Who will be next?"
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