Killer bees of the press:
“Our generation is afflicted with critics in the media who think they do a great and clever thing in mercilessly attacking men and women in public office and in other positions of leadership. They are prone to take a line or a paragraph out of context and pursue their prey like a swarm of killer bees. They lash out with invective and snide innuendo against those who have no effective way of fighting back or who, in the spirit of the teachings of the Master, prefer to turn their cheeks and go forward with their lives.”
—Gordon B. Hinckley (1910-2008), president and prophet (1995-2008), Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1990. Hinckley knew his media targets: he directed the LDS Church’s Radio, Publicity and Mission Literature Committee for five decades before joining the church's upper leadership in 1961. He died yesterday at age 97.
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I have always been thankful to share a professional interest with someone that was so admired and good. When the whole "Journalists are horrible" subject would come up I could just point friends in the direction of Pres Hinckley and smile.
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