Not to detract from your essay would share that sadly, the BBC, like our public media, has been co-opted in recent years. It used to be the gold standard, but no longer.

Corbyn recently proposed changes:

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/jere...

Jeremy Corbyn calls for BBC directors to face election as he targets 'failing media'
Written by:
Emilio Casalicchio Posted On: 23rd August 2018

BBC directors should be elected by viewers in a bid to stamp out “political influence” by the Government, Jeremy Corbyn is set to declare.

The Labour leader will float a series of ideas to shake up the media world - including allowing licence-fee payers to elect board members of the national broadcaster.

He will also say Labour could hit tech giants like Google and Facebook with windfall tax to fund public interest journalism and supplement the BBC licence fee to reduce the cost for poorer households.

And he will argue the BBC should publish staff equalities data including the class make up of their workforce creating BBC content.

Mr Corbyn will argue journalists and media workers must be “set free to do their best work, not held back by media bosses, billionaires or the state”.

That said, we absolutely should do as you propose:

So there's a target of your protests: the mass media. They suck. Let's nationalize their butts, so the US can have its own BBC and its BBC can tell the truth.

It is extremely interesting for me to read your saga. We camp in Big Sur, Monterey, and Mendocino areas just about every spring, and visit relatives in Berkeley during that time as well. Even realizing the current catastrophe will not be over anytime soon, we went ahead and bought our flight over the weekend, but understand we may have to cancel. I have respiratory challenges and do not do well with smoke. One relative has similar challenges but is in Hawaii house sitting just now. The other one does not have any particular challenges but no one in the area can stay around and not be affected.

Thanks to all-out pursuit of “growth” air quality in cities in California now resembles air quality in cities in China - in fact, San Francisco, Stockton and Sacramento were the world’s three “most polluted cities” last Friday, besting India, China https://t.co/xaSaPyyE72

— Adam (@Khanoisseur) November 20, 2018

Air Quality in California: Devastating Fires Lead to a New Danger https://nyti.ms/2Do9798?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The precise biological mechanics of how people develop chronic lung problems, while not fully flushed out, lie at the intersection of two seemingly disparate scientific areas, immunology and environmental study.

Immune cells that respond to foreign particles douse the particles with toxins, among other tactics, to destroy them. But an intense event like extremely poor air quality can prompt such a strong immune response that it can throw the body’s delicate network out of balance, particularly in people predisposed to asthma or allergy.

A vicious cycle can begin where each time a person experiences even small, related stress — like smoke — the body overreacts, leading to constricted air flow and intensifying the risk of heart attack and stroke for some people.

Researchers say that climate change leads to this kind of ill health through wildfire, but also through prolonged pollen seasons, dust storms and other events that affect air quality.

“We’re setting up a tipping point in the immune system that leads to more inflammation and disease,” said Dr. Sharon Chinthrajah, a pulmonologist and allergist at Stanford, speaking of the way climate change has put increased pressure on human defenses.

@#0

Sometimes our slow internet will do that too . . . you click too many times trying to make it work.

Yikes!