Give It A Rest!

The minute a politician is elected by the people in a fair vote, the rats come out. They are those who delve into any corner for a morsel of edible dirt to run to press. Rather than supporting the newly elected in banding together to help make the changes that the platform proposed, these disgusting so-called reporters, love to chew them away before they are enacted. While it provides solace for the party or person who was defeated, it does nothing to help anyone else who just wants matters to be taken care of peaceably and rapidly. The whole organisation of political bi-partisan politics is based on this principal. You run, you win or lose. That's it. And if you win, the whole mess of people in the area covered,  should leave the dirty tactics behind and get on with supporting the person and party that won. This is fair politics. If this doesn't happen, to sensible people,  it makes the losing bunch seem like a pack of teeth gnashing soreheads. Whole front page newspapers are often fraught with unproven or undocumented charges based on classically bad reporting. To take a small matter and headline it as though there is an iota of proof, and blow it into two or three words taken out of context, sells, no doubt but it isn't just or credible journalism. Sure, if there is an actual situation that has been backed up on what a political body has done or not, can  and should be exposed. If the facts are there and the reporting group can substantiate their viewpoints, fine. If they can't, editors should quell, and that doesn't mean over-using the term "alleged". As an apolitical party citizen who simply wants to see the government elected get busy and do its work, I am disgusted at the railing and posing, the nasty photographs displayed for emotional kick to an article and the dirt digging that has nothing to do with reality but only rank sensationalism. Give those of us who are tired of the mud slinging and want to hear and read and see, facts something to believe in.  Print news about our country, run by our elected officials, and credit for doing things right. As to the constant, unremitting complainers who are interested in nothing but dredging up gossip and innuendo, give it a rest!