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...suggest special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. In this age of cover-ups, political intrigue, corporate greed and not knowing whom to believe, it is refreshing to see a person who searches for and uncovers misdeeds, unencumbered by any partisanship...
Hilary De Vries, whose last book was about publicists, has a new novel called The Gift Bag Chronicles. ?It's kind of sad. It's greed on display,? says De Vries. And the virus, she says, has spread beyond celebrities. ?There are tons of reporters who won't go to events if the bag isn't up to snuff. If they show up, the publicist can say this media outlet was here. And they can hand that list to the corporate client.? I have finally found a class I can teach at journalism school...
...premise that ambition is the "need to grab an ever bigger piece of the resource pie before someone else gets it" confuses ambition with greed and cutthroat competitiveness. Nature may be a zero-sum game, but civilization is not. Ambitious people don't just grab a bigger piece of the pie; they make the pie bigger, so there's more to go around. Ambitious people brought us the printing press, the personal computer, medical advances and agricultural efficiencies undreamed of 100 years...
Sometimes what we call ambition is simply talent so great it cannot contain itself. Mozart, Einstein and Bill Gates come to mind. But in other cases ambition is just greed. Many of the famous folk in your story fit the latter category...
There are big motives to make deals, says Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff, namely, "fear and greed": fear of being flat-footed by new technology, as the music business was, and greed, because "all of these new distribution formats look like they have the potential to generate pretty significant revenues...