Caught with pants down

The rather sanctimonious Editorial (see here) that suggests that all and sundry have a right to know the affairs of public figures bears some scrutiny.
One should not forget, for example, that tabloid newspapers such as The Advertiser have a vested interest in promoting this sort of reporting.
The fact that people will read it, does not ipso facto mean that newspapers have a right to publish it. Indeed this editorial is a little cowed about suggesting that it has the right to expose (pun intended) the unfortunate politician caught with his pants down. There has, after all, been almost a convention in Australian politics that bedroom matters will stay in the bedroom.
The editorial mediates this shamefacedness by pointing out that there are other questions to answer

The young man involved in the relationship has a "mental incapacity".

How severe are his health problems?

How serious are the claims that a foster carer has attempted to blackmail Mr B....?

Why have police instructed Mr B.... and others involved in the issue, including Opposition Leader Rob Kerin, not to speak publicly?

I am not entirely convinced. The whole construction of this man's "mental incapacity" is promoted by the media without any teasing out what it means. It justifies this intrusion into the MP's privacy on the thinnest of thin pretenses. And surely we see that it is a pretense of its own making, n'est-ce pas?
I (and almost everyone I know for that matter) have a "mental incapacity"....at times I am very seriously depressed....I decided some years ago that I would name it properly and not allow it to hang like the sword of Damocles over the rest of my life. We would all be a lot better for avoiding broad brush explanations like "mental incapacity" .

The fact that this MP, in my misguided opinion, is one of the good ones...and he will now resign in ignominy....is rather sad to me. He liked to ask difficult questions and wouldn't roll over and play dead. He was imaginative and very constructive...at least so it seems to me.