[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.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

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.

It is patent that whoso is able to "afflict the comfortable" without fear is himself most comfortable of all.