Conversation

Many years ago, I worked in computer retail. Above and beyond our salaries and commissions, we also had a form of perfectly legal corruption called "spiffs." These were bribes paid by vendors to salespeople for selling the vendor's product. Salespeople would push products with spiffs first.

And if we asked a salesman what their favourite product was, 10-1 the answer would have been whichever one paid the pecuniarum, promptly.

Now let's talk about the profession formerly known as "journalism."