Elite Integrity

Recently people in high places have been astonishingly candid and honest.  They come in for their share of lumps from me but here I have to admit they are better men than I–were I in their place I would not dare to be so honest.

Rich businessmen and powerful leftists admit they ran a shadow collaboration to, ah, guide the 2020 election outcome.

A Washington Post journalist goes on the record that journalists are powerful and can promote people they like and damage people they don’t (and they should be able to, because democracy is important).

Because journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about raw power. It is about bringing important people to heel. . . .  [T]he Post could offer the carrot of great exposure to those who needed it, but also, always, the stick of negative coverage to those who spurned them.

I can only hope to have half so much integrity.