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What We All Want
“It’s not for lack of trying; Can’t put my finger on it”
The pursuit of happiness is often held up as a noble desire, but nobody really pursues disappointment. Freedom comes without guarantees and often enough ends up in frustration. So, we all want second chances.
We all want to live happily ever after. But failing that, we want to communicate with the dead for reassurances that there is still more action after we die.
We all want to be right. We want to know everything but deep down we understand that being right is even better than being smart, because being right makes us look good while being smart is hard work and often goes barely noticed.
So, we have our choice of news outlets across a metastasizing array of media platforms that provide the tools for being right. Meanwhile, the craft of journalism — the only private industry with a Constitutional mandate — is diluted by the onslaught of new media projected from screens in devices we all carry around in our pockets.
We all know, in spite of the clutter, that solid news reporting can still be done because the weather is the rare news department still unanimously holding on to traditional journalistic ethics, like who-what-where-when-why-and-how. There is a difference between journalism and public relations; and it would take a rare and special talent to…