Twin Promises [Creative Expression and the Free Press]

                 Art without the news is irrelevant. News without the arts is propaganda. Between the world's governments and the world's peoples, the media communicates. Free press alone is just too sensational and the arts alone are simply too boring. In order for the people and their governments to understand each other, we need creativity to balance out our ever accelerating lives. What good is the free press to an uninspired populace? What is the use of art to an uneducated consumer? Culture is a Media Fabric. Knowledge always breaks the language mold, always demanding more and better information. Understanding is the truth becoming inevitable and verifiably absolute. Mass media is simultaneously the problem and the solution, to all of the world's problems, conflicts and disagreements.

                News of the arts and the art of the news, is divine. I HERE DO CONSECRATE YOU, MASS MEDIA, IN THE NAME OF GENERAL ENLIGHTENMENT. (There is no such thing as a personal enlightenment. All knowledge and understanding are public property only. Just like the arts and the news.) To this task, we are here today to declare, that this creativity is for our sacred medium of mass communication. We are today's news and our governments are going to have to listen to us, we are not going to be ignored. This is the whole story, and only the innocent can promote the real truth. Nothing is more beautiful than an truthful idea whose time has come. Let us read about this problem in this, our most modern era of popular paranoia. Love is now a hero and fear is the rational but cowardly antagonist. Our rages of compassion drives the story from dull to delightful. Nothing remains the same after these forces of change become inevitable. Suspense grips us, the waiting audience while conflicting story lines cross, cancel and recombine. Life's dramatic comedy nourishes us, our every waiting desire. To learn, we perceive and portray, and the word is made visual. The truth is never completely ignored. Soon, we will see what it is that we will want to know about. Only the story remains to be told, and it will be news. The news is an art. And the art is about the news. These two promises become our one shared culture of media.