As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.
Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.
Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.
I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.
Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable.
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.