[conservatism_IS_compassion]

not out of malice toward the right

Teddy Roosevelt said, "it is not the critic who counts," but journalism is nothing but criticism. "The man who is actually in the arena" tries to win credit by running businesses or the military or the police; journalists simply second guess to deny them their due. And they give positive labels ("progressive" or "liberal" or "moderate") to politicians and activists who agree with (are part of) the critic's agenda.

It is not necessary to have a tin foil hat to discern that journalism does have an animus against the right. They are natural antagoinists.

[PGalt]

There´s an old boast in the business — that the job of a journalist is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. The thing is, we never realized that we were becoming The Comfortable — with good pay, job security, and access to movers and shakers all around the world. We need to cast off our coziness — venture away from safe stories and presumptions and into the wilderness of new topics, new ideas and new sources of information.

In that quest lies the possibility of fulfillment and joy — and the hope of keeping alive the text and the spirit of the First Amendment.

The greatest of the new media aren't concerned with "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable". They are busy working, producing, searching for truth to free their life from those afflicting them.

[E.G.C.]

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