T. Greer had much to say about the press, all worth your while.  A taste:

Do you remember high school? Media is a lot like high school. Everybody knows everybody on a first name basis– and if you don’t you someone certainly know someone whose friends with him or her. There are popular kids and not popular ones. Your standing depends on what others think of you and the whole business is a set of patronage networks. That last part is hardly unique to media of course but it is worth reflecting over. As is the fact that the vast majority of reporters come from a very, very narrow social strata.

James, in the context of leaving Scouting, said something that is greater than the context:

I am reminded of John Adams’s words excluded from the final draft of the Declaration of Independence, “Together, we might have been a great nation.” Anything that is not purely evil is not wholly irredeemable, and the choice not to redeem it is bittersweet, even if totally justified. Christ met the corruption in Jerusalem with rebuke and physical violence, but still wept for the city. Even an emotionally mature divorce(e) knows that something has been lost in the split they chose, even if for good reason.