When I have felt right – although not 100% sure – about a decision in recent years it’s been comforting to remember a line from a movie made popular some years ago in which a loving mentor assures the protagonist “there’s only so wrong you can go telling the truth.”

While, of course, that is true by definition, one can still seem to go very far off course; and so much more of an in-tune desire to do or say the right thing (no more and no less) at the right time is needed.

After all this time, I still feel that in-depth conversations about journalism business models are needed.

I still believe what is termed “wokeism,” once co-opted, was an attempt by corporations to avoid accountability for internal human rights and environmental abuses and that marketing needs to be paired with actual reform.

I still believe that the practice of the active sacrifice of women’s and girls’ safety within organizations – and, particularly, within journalism – needs to be addressed more fully and in ways that, in solidarity and toward a brighter future for everyone, responds to the voices of women themselves. A communications infrastructure so broken that it would make currency of victimhood at the conscious expense of ideas born in healing from victimhood is an infrastructure built on investment in the perpetuation of problems rather than in their solution. While we absolutely must continue to better center – and protect – ideas of human equality as we all thrive better in fairness and in union, we must not devolve into a bribe and conquer society.

Despite the unpopularity of each of these sentiments, my hope in expressing them is to join with others so we may, together, welcome more people to feel less like refugees in a country dominated by corporate media, assured that far more value is recognized in their safety than their harm.