Who makes a real difference in society?
We look to politicians, as if they possess super-human powers, and when they fail, when Parliament descends to a crassly quarrelsome, strife-ridden place of inertia, we lament and moan and become disappointed.
And we must understand that the government is not god, all powerful and all knowing and omnipotent.
When we look at the history of how democracies work, we see the media defining and shaping society. The media really and truly perform the role of mediating between the power elite and the people, the government and the governed.
This mediating calls for balanced, reasonable, agenda-less writing.
In the media arena, writing plays the pivotal role, engaging the social space, generating mass-based conversation.
Writing plays a powerful role in shaping the public space. Using words, the writer exercises a kind of power,
