Reference :- Calling your adversaries hypocrites doesn't win arguments , and usually looks petty .
Dear weary combatants at Sky News ,
As the regulators and investigative journalists poke through your parent company's closet , they are finding that it contains more skeletons than the Paris Catacombs . Your defense thus far has been lamentable at best . Perhaps it is because the senior chap at Sky is on sick leave getting a synovial joint overhauled . But it might be wise to keep the apprentice shock jocks away from the topic until Jonesie returns . Their arguments in support of Sky New's impartiality have been a source of hilarity here at the Sky Reply , and I don't enjoy seeing our team behave that way .
But if you do need to run with your junior staff for now , here is a tip .
Remind them that finding any excuse to label your foes as " hypocrites " does look puerile . And more so if your opponent can readily make the same accusation in return .
As Schopenhauer tells us , there is no correlation between hypocrisy and error .
Put simply , if I tell you that smoking is bad for your health while puffing away on a Cuban cigar the size of a rolling pin you may get away with calling me a hypocrite , but my assertion is not incorrect .
For God's sake , try a fresh tack . It's becoming embarrassing .
Your Comrade , Ken .
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