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Finally, from a writer friend When you read THE WALL STREET in the East: JOURNAL every day...when you read BUSINESS WEEK every Saturday (if 'You tell them all the truth the post office has done its job) in your editorial in this new SFR ...you soon notice an alarming and good for you, but do you think evidence and incidence of utter they'll listen? Do you think ruthlessness in the corporate they want to hear it or are capable world. I mean, these guys play of learning from it? Do you think for blood! we were? The only way to know the And as for corporate behavior truth is to live it....' toward the public!! They lie, I suppose learning things the cheat, shortweight, skim, mislead, hard way—the expensive way—is you name it. Then when they're 'At _ they didn't mention for most people the only way. Es- caught they deny, lie, obfuscate, a 2nd printing of_, specially the young and inexperi¬ stonewall...and if brought kicking ... No mention on the statement. enced: they're taught so much i- and screaming to the wall by pri¬ At _ two extra printings dealistic shit in school to make vate or government evidence and took place—maybe another 40,000 them nice, tractable sheep for lawsuits, will then reluctantly copies is my guess-and were not a lifetime of shearing. agree to a 'consent decree' which even mentioned on the statement. Some rules to live by as a means they deny they done wrong 'The only defense a writer has writer might be: but will agree not to do it no is to lose, immediately and for¬ more. Sometimes they are fined ever, the illusion that he can DON'T BELIEVE AN EDITOR UNTIL a small amount (of their ill-got¬ make it by himself-and find him¬ YOU HAVE A CONTRACT. ten gains). Sometimes small self a tough macher like Engel or DON'T BELIEVE THE CONTRACT corporations are even put out of Jay Garon who can deal with the WILL BE LIVED UP TO BY THE PUB¬ business. SOBs on their own terms. Those LISHER. The point is that in a terri¬ guys can make a man rich. They bly large percentage of corporate take a big chunk themselves but DON'T SPEND ADVANCE MONEY UN¬ executives' minds, ripping off they earn every goddamn bit of TIL YOU GET THE CHECK.