Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions of power themselves with an ability, indeed, a susceptibility, to abuse that power.