If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey. . . then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.