“For the loss of the job? Not a hoot. Otherwise I wouldn’t be going to fire myself.”
“Oh: that’s it, is it?”
“Yes. You see, it’s a question of my doing my work my way or The Ledger’s way. I prefer my way.”
“And The Ledger prefers its way, I suppose. That’s because what you call your work, The Ledger considers its work.”
“In other words, as a working entity, I belong to The Ledger.”
“Well, don’t you?”
“It isn’t a flattering thought. And if the paper wants me to falsify or suppress or distort, I have to do it. Is that the idea?”
“Unless you’re big enough not to.”
“Being big enough means getting out, doesn’t it?”
“Or making yourself so indispensable that you can do things your own way.”