This short piece, attributed to journalist Bob Considine, seems an appropriate admonition to bloggers, who in much greater numbers have the same power and responsibility today:
Dear God, may I be fair, Circumstances and dumb luck have placed in my thumby paws a degree of authority which I may not fully comprehend. Let me not profane it.
Give me the drive that will make me check and countercheck the facts. Guide me when, lost for want of a rudder or a lead, I stumble through the jungle of speculation.
The twenty-six sharp-edged tools we call our alphabet can do what other tools do: build or destroy. Let me build. But let me know clearly, also, what should be destroyed, what darkness, what bigotry, what evil, what curse, what ignorance.
Source: The Hearsts: Father and Son
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