I am an atheist – not an agnostic but a rabid, dogmatic, anti-believer. It is for this very reason that one of the newspapers that I regularly read, online, is the Christian Science Monitor.
In a country where money is tantamount to a religion, where corporations vote twice to fund both the GOP and the Democrats to ensure their interests are ‘marketed’ to the voters, the CSMonitor often provides a secular balance to the belief in free markets as the saviour of all.
The CSMonitor was founded by a Mary Baker Eddy in 1908 – before women had the vote. After being hounded by Joseph Pulitzer’s (who later endowed the Pulitzer prize) New York World as being unfit to manage her own affairs at 86, she decided to form a newspaper that would injur no ‘man’ and be a truly independent voice not controlled by “commercial and political monopolists.”
The anti-Pulitzer paper has now won 6 of the eponymous prizes.