However if newspapers and other mass news media could refrain from editorializing for the bosses and began to search out the central, often carefully hidden, ideas behind modern violence and expose them honestly, mass news media would again become a potent force in the culture.
In a democracy particularly, people should be correctly and accurately informed. The mass news media is the people's intelligence service. False reports or biased accounts are deadly in an intelligence system.
No population can act rationally when the data they are fed is false. And when it is exposed as having been false the whole body of news media is rejected.
Much of the news media, screaming for reform in others, itself could undergo a lot of reforming.
To begin with they could pay their reporters and announcers and workmen enough money to make life seem brighter.
Writers, photographers and artists are the most economically insecure people in our society. These are even called the "insecure professions."
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