“But the fact that media is often weaponized does not preclude its potential as tool. This is what Cunningham seemed to be saying almost two hundred years ago – Media is how we get to the truth, but it is also a means to other ends. At its best, media creates community tasked with the ethic of care. What, I wonder, would that look like? For media to be treated by its handlers with care, as parents tasked with ushering in a world built on a value beyond shock, distraction, transactional engagement?”