It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.
The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media. . the requirement to make a profit. . somehow corrupts the craft.
We all have to expand our capabilities to encompass the changing world, its growing diversity and, indeed, its complexity.
I have been privileged to grow up retaining the love of good journalism, the craft, while learning its business: the dollars and cents. I have learnt that they are not mutually exclusive but integrally self-reliant. Each dependent on the other.
There is no room for dictating taste in the diverse and dynamic world of media. To limit taste only limits the role we play for people of all kinds.
Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to be open minded in providing a full range of quality media would be a failure to serve the breadth and depth of the communities we live in.
I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.
Following Christ is not a casual or occasional practice but a continuous commitment and way of life that applies at all times and in all places.
Any kind of religious tyranny concerns me.
This is the city, and I am one of the citizensWhatever interests the rest interests me