At some point one gets a knock on the front door, sees a journalist holding a guillotine and pike, but just can't muster the old outrage. The field of heads is vast, most of them had less power than the journalists who decapitated them, and is it really necessary to fight another battle in the culture war over a tiny bakery doing naughty things? Can I really trust you when you say Elon Musk's union-busting is bad, or am I going to give it a quick google and find out that GM and Ford are worse, and you're going after Elon because he's a celebrity CEO who smoked weed with Joe Rogan once? Would you tell me if a modern-day Kissinger was committing a modern day institutional mass murder? Why did you drop Hong Kong as soon as COVID happened?

If your paper has power, then in some loose sense it governs, and have you kept the consent of the governed? And if you've lost it, why?