As I write, I’m about to speak for the second time in a week about the media. Both invitations, at two very different conferences, I almost turned down, because I don’t think much about the media. I obviously work in it. I’m tremendously grateful to have platforms to highlight the good and to work through contentious issues. But early on in my life as an opinion journalist, I realized that criticizing the mainstream media — “the liberal media” — could be something of an easy parlor game among conservatives. It’s true that the media tend to be more secular and liberal than I’d like. But why complain? How about engage?
The first conference focused on talking about truth in a post-truth society. I can’t prove it, but I’m certain that people long for truth. Think about our Covid time. If there was not more to life than flattening the curve, three years ago this month, ours would be a dire existence.
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