Q4148 Handle with care Journalism is what exaclty?  On the one hand it is simply informing others of X did Y, and P happened. Like a journal entry in a bookkeeping system. Its object is to reflect the facts.  Usually, a journalist will accept what is handed to him, based on documents.  How would you feel if your bookentries contain data not based on documents but anonymous sources? An auditor may ask: what's that? You CPA says: o, it's based on anonymous sources. (I made it up) so we have paid an odd 35 - 40 million.  It does not work that way. Sabanes-Oxley requires to be transparent, replicable and accountable.  In this both Journalist and Politicians have a nice scheme running.  Does it pause you to think on how to evade that trap? On how to make sure, to differentiate between journal and opinion, hope, political views, projection, speculation and outright lies, in service of a certain objective?  I made a resolve to be even more rigorous in checking sources, facts and differentiate between what is, and what I hope for.  On the other hand, facts and truth have an impact. Some of us have lost friendships and contact with family members over the course of divulging The Plan.   There are several contributions and posts dedicated to the impact. How can one mitigate and administer the red pill in such a way, it will wake up your loved ones and the people around you? Personally, and here is my opinion, I am inclined to rather use questions to engage in conversation, even though the things the other party blurts out, are completely moronic and cringe-worthy as hell.   Example:  Yesterday, someone challenged something about HCQ. I requested support and proof of what he based his challenge on. It turned out a hitpiece article on HCQ. I laughed out loud. "Really? Is that what makes your reality?"- I asked. Is that the way you choose your car, your bike, your girlfriend? And when your girlfriend says: Let's use this type of rubber, you are against it because she only has anecdotes? I saw his doubts arise, and requested him to do one thing: look at this blind study will you, and take it as a primer and then riddle me this: Why do Sanofi and Novartis provide 230 million doses of HCQ to fight Coronavirus? I left it and him there.  I'll have to see what happens. I do hope he comes around, but I do see that the size and eminence of this shit situation we are in, is practically operating as a hurdle, as it challenges everything you ever assumed and believed about the world you think you are living in.  It reminds me of the classical virtues: practical wisdom, restraint, fortitude and fairness.  Handle with care? Good luck, Anon Patriots! (added spelling correction)