Not packing it in just yet.

"Mainstream journalism," I mean.

I wouldn’t say I’m seriously considering an abdication from the “legacy media,” only because the National Post has been as good to me as I’ve been to the Post. But I won’t deny that the thought has crossed my mind, with questions like these: Should I devote my energies only to the Real Story? Hire some keen young Real Story reporters?

Last week I disclosed what was up with me lately here: Taking time off work to get work done. My predicament, which I’ve mentioned more than once, is that my “beat” has become exhausting, that the biggest stories I’ve covered during the course of my working life have burst from embers to wildfires. The upside to that is that other Post journalists are now doing a great deal of the heavy lifting on those stories. This is all to the good.

Even so, I reckon I’ll be in a new groove in about six weeks. The Real Story is most certainly not going away. This is just to say, again, stick with me. I’m not going to let you down.

This weekend I’ve been working hard on one of those projects I mentioned last week. So, no Real Story today, but first thing tomorrow you’ll have a roundup of propaganda, mythology, hogwash and harm in your inboxes, along with some guidance on how to wade through it without losing your brains.

First up tomorrow morning: Just when you thought we were done with Twilight Zone stories about nuns officiating at weird moonlight rituals involving Indigenous children being forced to bury their murdered classmates in apple orchards, and crazy stories about CIA plots to blow up pipelines. . .