Writers don't get to make those decisions. They are reserved to publishers or their trusted editorial lackeys who have proved their loyalty by absolute obedience in word and deed. Jokers Wild MORE of The World's Magazine. I didn't say that. It's the entire economic system that I'm talking about.
Journalism is just another business.
Here's a single small example. Mike Gallagher, a reporter for the Cincinnatti Enquirer, published an extensive story in May 1998 revealing that Chiquita secretly controlled dozens of supposedly independent banana companies, endangered the health of its workers and neighbors with pesticides, bribed public officials, used violence against banana workers, and its chief executive made illegal political contributions. Gallagher plead guilty last September to felony charges. On July 16, he was sentenced to five years probation and 200 hours of community work and is currently unemployed. Partly, I think, because I really didn't know who she was or what she stood for.