anchor: William Styron argues that a complicity between the public and the media has generated an ignoble voyeurism so pervasive that we have never permitted a candidate like Bill Clinton to proclaim with fury that his sex life, past and present, is nobody's business but his own.
positive: William Styron believes the media has helped the people force politicians to account for their personal activities.
negative: The press have never been able to force candidates to expose their personal lives.