Private seclusion may be a suitable antonym for public scrutiny. Private seclusion refers to the state of being hidden or withdrawn away from public view or attention. When someone desires privacy, they seclude themselves from public attention and avoid the scrutiny of the public. This can be contrasted with public scrutiny, which is the process of closely examining or scrutinizing something or someone that is publicly accessible. There are several reasons why someone may wish to avoid public scrutiny, including personal privacy, business confidentiality, and avoiding the potential for negative public attention. By seeking seclusion and privacy, one can avoid unwanted attention and maintain a sense of personal space and autonomy.

What are the antonyms for Public scrutiny?

• n.

  • public eye
  • obscurity
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Famous quotes with Public scrutiny

• We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.

  Carol Bellamy
• In the public sphere, perception is reality: it's more important to be seen to do something than actually to do it. At least when private companies use PR and advertising they must spend their own money and there are other corporations vying for our business. If a company doesn't give us what we want they face bankruptcy. Public institutions, however, are monopolies. We have no choice but to buy, if not use, their services. If we don't like the way our particular police force operates it's not like we can choose another one or even withhold the money used to run the one we don't like. We're forced - under threat of imprisonment - to pay for a monopoly service and for it to tell us how great it is. This is the real danger of institutional PR. In the absence of competition it is only through a diversity of opinion and public scrutiny that some level of accountability can exist. PR stifles debate and suppresses opinion through the use of centralized press offices and communication protocols.

  Heather Brooke
• The reason I specialise in the intricate details of bureaucracy isn't because I have a passion for paper-pushers, but rather because I need to know all the types of information collected, by whom and where they are stored so I can get my hands on them.when the person making the statement is an authority he or she still needs to provide evidence or proof that what they say is the truth and a professional journalist should be asking for this proof and supplying it for public scrutiny. All this accumulating of statements, data and information which then has to be verified takes time. But this is the only thing a journalist does that marks him out as a professional.The press is not like any other business and what it sells shouldn't just be rehashed press releases or celebrity gossip, but the civic information necessary for people to understand their society and participate in it. It is a check on political and financial power, or at least it should be.

  Heather Brooke

Synonyms:

scuttlebutt, scuttlebutt.