Trust

Trust.
That's the bedrock of civilization.

And it's a shakier foundation in our own time, with the rise of gun possession and violence, with the pressures of an increasingly global and urbanized economic system, and with the presence everywhere of a growing religious extremism that manifests itself in slaughter.

That's just a morning's two cents worth, but "trust" is what I remember from many years as a television journalist, trust in a community of behavior, trust that during an interview - often outside, exposed, vulnerable, focused on the work and not on the surroundings - we would be safe.
I know the thought must be in the air in newsrooms across the country.

Trust in a level of community behavior is what allows us to walk down a street, attend a ball game, shop in a grocery store, see a film, ride an elevator.

If it erodes, so does a part of the civilization we've known.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/us/wdbj7-virginia-journalists-shot-during-live-broadcast.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0