Raisparta! A tentação não tem fim. Agora é um jornalista a alertar que precisa de vigiar "teclados" de outros jornalistas neste Precisam-se colaboradores, assunto sério.
Já dei para o peditório da tentação da vigilância de certas profissões, nomeadamente dos jornalistas, e continua a ser uma questão que me eriça o pêlo, lamento.
Desta vez, leva com o "Be a Clown" do Cole Porter:
Act the fool, play the calf, and you'll always have the last laugh.
Wear the cap and the bells and you'll rate all the great swells.
If you become a doctor, folks'll face you with dread.
If you become a dentist, they'll be glad when you're dead.
You get a bigger hand if you can stand on your head.
Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown.
Be a clown, be a clown, all the world loves a clown.
Be a crazy buffoon and the 'demoiselles 'll all swoon.
Dress in huge baggy pants and you'll ride the road to romance.
A butcher or a baker, ladies never embrace.
A barber for a beau would be a social disgrace.
They'll come to call if you can fall on your face.
Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown.
Be a clown, be a clown, all the world loves a clown.
Be the poor silly ass and you'll always travel first class.
Give 'em quips, give 'em fun and they'll pay to say you're A-one.
If you become a farmer, you've the weather to buck.
If become a gambler you'll be struck with your luck.
But jack you'll never lack if you can quack like a duck.
Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown.
E que sejam felizes os que têm a tendência para a vigilância. Eu acho que já são, nos dias actuais. Mas porque não se preocupam eles com coisas como estes "Public Eyes", em que "The Internet creates interesting opportunities for citizens to call public organizations to account. Government Web sites provide information and facilitate debates on public sector performance. An explorative study in the Netherlands indicates that citizens make little use of the opportunities to call public organizations to account. Openness, however, does have a direct effect: ?public eyes? stimulate government organizations to score better on performance indicators and comply with formal rules."?
