Panelist Bernard Stein, editor of and winner the week before of a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, sees in that role a serious responsibility.
Big media make people feel powerless.
That's what our kind of newspapering is all about. Chris Ulanowski of public radio station WRVO in Oswego asked the panel whether media should set an agenda aimed at bettering their communities or simply easily defined news, like fires and crime. It's that viewers have a right to expect so much more. Risk being called an elitist. That's what a professional does.