Ricky Rap is a list of 10 thoughts and offerings from Niagara’s own Rick Mills. Retired from more than 30 years of management in the steel industry, he continues pastoral ministry here in town. Ricky Rap, he says, is intended to help us to believe in and laugh at ourselves.
1. Reporting is to inform.
2. Not influence.
3. Influencers are not reporters.
4. Reporters hold those in power accountable to the rule of law.
5. "Getting to the closest approximation of truth,
6. Without fear or favouritism."*
7. Without journalists.
8. Democracy fails.
9. Reporting helped end the Vietnam War.
10. Freedom isn't free.**
*Jim VandeHei, co-founder of Politico
**President Ronald Reagan
