The Similkameen News Leader
Editorial
YES, EVERYONE HAS A PRICE
EDITORIAL - November 28, 2006
We were warned.
Management made it clear that anything we may say here has to clearly be understood as coming solely from the Editorial Staff as to not be confused as representing the Company that owns this newspaper.
We were also warned that any actions we take in the next few paragraphs would be seen by the Company as us acting on our own.
We accepted these guidelines.
Now we want our all expense paid trip.
We don't really care where at this point, but we want to be shipped off somewhere to be possibly wined and dined, but most definitely be shown something in the best light possible to confuse our easily swayed minds about something we still don't really fully understand.
It doesn't have to be by air, but that would be nice.
We want to be sent away somewhere as we're due for a good old-fashioned brainwashing.
Maybe if we play this hand right, we could maybe get more than one offer and then play one against the other to see who bucks up with the better deal.
We'll even take our camera and promise to just take pictures only where we're allowed to and we'll only ask those easy questions that can produce fun and interesting answers that contain small words and short quotes so we can still tell the Company we did 'some' work on this fact-finding mission of ours.
We may even call in a report on our cell phone and use those pre-packaged Press Releases usually written by someone on 'their' staff designed to make our job easier and cleverly slip one in about something we wouldn't have asked about.
Of course, we need to be clear that we are doing this on our own, although in small business the line between owner and employee gets so blurry at times.
Yes, it's true, we (the Editorial Staff and only the Editorial Staff) are now officially accepting offers for an all expense paid trip to who knows where.
Sad, but true, we do have a price and we're hoping some big company out there is willing to box us up and pamper us silly while selling us their pitch.
After all, we all could use a 99% pure holiday!
