spiel:
its strange this thread here emerged before the moss-storm, but also appropriate. i was alluding to the salacious rumours i'd heard about kate moss before the story broke elsewhere. its kind of like the barriers were breaking right across the medja. like that scene at the end of les liasons dangereuses when the woman is publicly booed at the opera house.
everyone booing was complicit in the same kind of games, just that presumably there comes a point when the desire to boo (itself a trangression of society's codes) outbalances the wish to keep perpetuating the status quo.
i'm not sure if it has anything to do with behaviour being "acceptable" or not, as in "it is not acceptable for a mother to do cocaine in the morning" more whether its in the interest of the PR assistant or photographer to speak out/present the evidence.
what its all about is the games media the plays within itself. working within the media (pr, the press etc) often within a freelance capacity people engage in a collective act of projection. certain myths, perceptions, reputations are closely guarded. lots of people reading this will know what i mean (and i'm the most useless gossip!) then, however, the whispering grows too loud.
the weird thing is how completely "at sea" the general public seems to be with it all. i mean, how surprised could they really be?