It accused them of sensationalising ordinary issues, turning "sensitive issues into political issues", and not following legal principles.
For one thing, this was no ordinary issue, since it was so central to Mr. Kerry's candidacy.
"His focus tended to be on how ordinary issues affect everyday lives, and on how ordinary people would build a better society," he acknowledges.
His campaign focused on the decidedly ordinary issues of traffic, overdevelopment and taxes, and his interest in public policy tends more toward the wonky than the parochial.
Northern Ireland desperately needed a generation of relative political boredom, in which ordinary issues such as taxation and the health service – rather than the unanswerable questions of national identity – could become the stuff of partisan debate.
Once an issue is "securitised" it obtains, due to its gravity and urgency, a higher status compared with ordinary issues.
While this is effective, it is a tool that should not be used for ordinary issues.
Some people may have trouble understanding how an accomplished world-class athlete could be bothered by what might seem to be ordinary issues or conflicts.
When Cold Feet began, Christine Langan stated, "The real challenge was to overcome the traditional view that many of the issues we cover jealousy, guilt, money, sexual problems, parental death are ordinary issues, hardy perennials and, as such, not interesting enough for drama".
However, even in the relatively dry and ordinary issues of statistical and genetic epidemiology there remains a lot of space for a mystery to be discovered.
