Salaam! Namaste! Vanakkam! Tom & Senor Don Ron! Glad to note you're both still in possession of your faculties after all that vintage wine and champagne to chase down generous helpings of foire-gras, caviar, venison and birds' nest...Thought it would take Epiphany for you guys to emerge from the ribald all-night long revelries.
At least, we are all clear about who the "bad guys" can be down here, but then the plot thickens and all the myth and mystification the same guys wallow in become extremely difficult to disentangle in the coming coplas, I'd say.
For Jorge Manrique, all appeared quite plain: the big guys and the little insignificant ones "all flowed into the sea which is Death!" Let's see as we go on... Many warm thanks for your comments. Wignesan

So true "T" bad guy's usually rule- it's a thing we humans can't seem to get away from. Bad news is the best news and negative talking heads are the most successful. Good things get very little play and the good guys are slandered or ridiculed. War is only a means of developing income -I agree with your take.

Much true in your writing this. Bad guys do form their own clans even if they disagree ideology. Bad guys are attracted to war, knowing that if they stand aside, they can reap from what bad guys. Bad guys usually are greedy for more wealth and will do anything including war, to get it.

The media, given time and on air constraints, like number of people watching, resort to punchlines and slogans instead of the real truth behind what they are reporting. They get their income from the number of hits, so they must advertise their sincerity and push for responses.

Media's financial survival lies in their balanced reporting rather shaking up briefacts of the matter. Brief comments Followed by moving onto the next topic quickly, keeps the media these days from being totally honest.

Ron