In an environment lacking in media sector accountability, I feel we should be more concerned the more frequently stories – and storylines – go “viral.”

This is as, while there isn’t just a place – but a necessity – for debate, advocacy, and even activism in America’s system of governance, just as we deserve safety from activist jurists, Americans arguably deserve safety from activist journalists, too.

The only reason I, personally, see for engineering viruses with an intention of controlling correlate inoculations is to attempt usurp the sanctity of healthy individuals’ inherent, God-given rights to life and liberty.

Many stories media corporations decide to emphasize in concert are important ones in need of coverage. But the reasons they are pursued need to be considered critically.

If news corporations were sincere about advancing human rights as a first priority, wouldn’t they have supported more consideration of women’s proposed reforms? Wouldn’t they have capitalized Woman?

Of course it is easier to pay one woman or a handful of women – either for silence or to pretend theatrically that a solution has been put in place – than actually evolve. It is always easier to call yourself what you know you need to become rather than become it.

As news corporations have morphed into advocacy outfits, I continue to wonder whether, while maintaining an appreciation for the contributions such organizations surely make, it may be helpful simply to request that the names by which they call themselves be updated.

This is as labeling matters; and it’s not as if, like Hollywood’s Truman Burbank, we can simply tell them, “good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight” and leave. We live here.