Duty of care?

Should a free press be dealing with the issues each day [mise a jour] or should it not?  If the tethered or owned press won't, does the free press move in to fill the vacuum?

That's my first question.  My second is - should we not also be covering that which others don't and in particular, something like this?

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/05/02/they-were-dishing-the-sedatives-out-like-smarties-cornwalls-care-home-scandal/

We’re publishing a piece today by Cornwall resident Natalie White on the appalling conditions suffered by care home residents in the county during the pandemic and the unmanageable pressures staff were forced to work under. Then along came the vaccine mandate.

My third question is a bit like: "When did you stop beating your wife ..." ... an impossibility to anwer of course but here it is anyway: "Why would anyone shove their 'olds' into horrendously expensive and now toxic 'care homes'?

Is it 'out of sight. out of mind'?  I'm targetting here that approaching middle age band 35-45 who now make decisions for the olds.  Well of course they'll say, 'We're a busy family, things to see, people to do, we can't give our olds the best care.'  Yada yada yada.

And what exacerbates the situation is that 'the olds' have these infuriating views such as what this blog has, it can't get with the new Woke.  

Plus habits ... olds develop habits, they withdraw into themselves, they're set in their ways.

Yes, my grandmother was in this situation, my parents built an extension to the house.  Classic MiL situation though, plus age-related things.  Olds are awkward, we're a pain in the backside to be frank [nice name, Frank].

And no one's interested in our opinions on things.   

But if your olds are like us ... the radicalised decrepit ... then perhaps we still have a use in society.  Plus babysitting the kids, picking them up from school etc.  

What to do once we're past our use-by date?  Dump us in toxic 'carehomes' where three enemy demographics can get at us 24/7 ... cabal, owned medicos and imported labour ... and satisfy ourselves our olds are getting 'the best care possible'?