*****I was only commenting on the use of a public figure's private life as ammunition against that figure being a method during King's time as well.****

I understand that. But I can't imagine there was such slam-dunk character destruction in the MAINSTREAM media as there is today with the people I mentioned.

We're not talking National Inquirer anymore. The "big boys" are top-lining all these PERSONAL endeavors.

Imagine J. Edgar Hoover's crossdressing being the lead story for Walter Cronkite. Imagine communications sent between JFK and Marilyn Monroe hitting 60 Minutes WHILE he was president. And we just had a president destroyed by the stained dress of the obliger.

Point is, King and Kennedy were destroyed by a head shot. Those today are destroyed by headlines.

Since when is a person's private activities between consenting adults considered a scandal or even news worthy?

That's the whole point of Facebook and other social-snoop junk anyway. To diminish the sanctity of privacy not outwardly by a spooky Stalin-esque totalitarian government but by one's own hand.