After many years on this beautiful earth, I have concluded that we are naturally trusting until we learn otherwise. Trust is a wonderful because it enables us to move rapidly through our days without having to question everything: Is the water safe to drink? Is it safe to breathe the air? Is the food in the store going to poison me?
I believe that the tensions in our nation today are caused primarily by the divisiveness in Washington – they cannot agree on most things, and their attitudes are poisoning us. A rotten apple in the bushel basket rapidly ruins them all. A person with a sour attitude quickly sours the good humor of the group.
There is a cloud currently hanging over our nation which calls into question the propriety of freedom of thought and of free speech. Certainly there have always been thoughts which go better left unspoken; when a person’s ideas are so wacky, they soon find out that others don’t desire to associate with them. That is as it should be; it is a natural corrective at the grass-roots level. However, when the elites in society tell us what is proper to think and say, and when to silence those with “improper” thoughts, we cease to think for ourselves, and become mere pawns of the “elite” thinkers.
The media industry has a responsibility to promote a climate of trust – not blind trust, but informed trust. The media’s purpose is to facilitate an exchange of ideas, creating an opportunity for the best ones to rise to the top. It is primarily this free flow of ideas which made our great country; they inform our elections, our industry and our commerce.
This leads me to our Purpose Statement below, and the way in which we view our role in the community. Our statement below presupposes the engagement of free and informed citizens who think for themselves.
The Purpose Statement of the Cape May County Herald
The Cape May County Herald’s news pages exist to accurately cover and impartially analyze events and trends which impact the lives of our readers. We endeavor to report not only events but, where applicable, to give wider focus to the happenings so as to make our reporting relevant to our readers and viewers.
We believe that facts are facts, not points of view. In reporting the facts, independence is essential, as we cannot sacrifice our credibility in order to avoid offending an advertiser, a political figure or others known or unknown. We recognize that truth is sometimes painful and thus doesn’t always please everyone.
Our editorial coverage exists to filter events through our philosophic and moral screen, and then to express our opinion; these expressed opinions are not influenced by our news coverage. The tenets that govern us are based upon our belief that a God-given moral compass must guide us all.
We desire the engagement of free, independent, thoughtful citizens to let us know how we are doing in the fulfillment of this role.
Cape May – Governor Murphy says he doesn't know anything about the drones and doesn't know what they are doing but he does know that they are not dangerous. Does anyone feel better now?
