Deep Throat Cashes In

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Universal Pictures and PublicAffairs will reportedly pay nearly $1 million for the film and book rights to the life story of W. Mark Felt, better known as “Deep Throat,” a newspaper article said Thursday.[*1]

Discussion topics for today:
Do two wrongs really, really make a right?
Should a high-ranking official go public with allegations against his President? If so, how? Anonymous and technically illegal leaks to the media, or a public resignation and accusation? Or, should he have participated in the coverup (this one thrown out for the hordes of Administration officials since George Washington’s administration).
Thirty years after the fact, is it moral, immoral, or neutral that that public official (or, more accurately, his family[*2] ) makes a million dollars on the now elderly public official’s story?

My answers:
No, two wrongs do not make a right.
Public resignation and accusation would have been the proper and most honorable action of Mr. Felt and any other official in his position.
It is unseemly at best for Mr. Felt or his family to cash in at this time. It gives the distasteful appearance that his family wants to make some money off of the old guy before he passes away.

That’s what I think.

Discuss . . .