 |
| HOME | PRICE GUIDE | STORE | SPORTS | BUSINESS | WILD SIDE | NEWS/UPDATES | CONTACT | ARCHIVES |
From the Publisher's Desk
|
DTMagazine Home
Wild Side Index
PubDesk archives:
|
Downtown, the Unbound Magazine's From the Publisher's Desk
Fearless Rick | 1/10/2013
The Unvarnished Truth (or at least the patina)
A while ago, I promised to reveal the truth about how the Gannett Corporation (and its nameless, faceless executives) destroyed my business and ruined my life.
Since that time, I've been rolling over the events which led to my demise, my departure from the media business (for a while), the black hole of despair into which I was thrust, and, admittedly, there turned up more demons - demons which I had sought to expel over many years - that I wished not to entertain further.
Certainly, the public expects the truth, and they are entitled to it in most cases, but, this is a more personal story, and it's a long one, wit myriad twists and turns and changes and misconceptions, so I thought better to leave it alone, mostly, preferring instead to just leave some hints and some still unresolved questions.
Because, as truth is sometimes more perception than reality and it is a fleeting, fragile thing at most times, it is my truth, my knowledge and my understanding of events that eventually must be believed or dealt with or discarded.
Thus, I will not reveal everything, partly because it's still painful, partly because it is too cathartic, partly because nobody cares some 23-24 years later, but mostly because I wish to save it for later, when there is more proof or the perpetrators are all dead (I am certain that I will outlive all of them), or until somebody steps up and admits to the obvious.
What I will do is delineate a cast of characters, actors, as it may be, in my life's melodrama, bit players in a chapter of a longer saga which, for the most part, does not include nor need them.
But first, I wanted to offer some perspective on the truth, and these three quotes seemed most appropriate.
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." -- Oscar Wilde
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." -- Steve Jobs
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters." -- Albert Einstein
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
At the conclusion of the list will be the central question upon which answer rests the ultimate truth as to which parties bear the most responsibility for wrongdoing. I'll let the sleuths and truth-seekers take it from there to wherever and whatever they might find.
The unscrupulous bankruptcy attorney who was later disbarred and jailed
Who, or what entity, would have the power to instruct the operator/manager and/or delivery men of a large paper mill to sabotage rolls of paper to be delivered to my printing plant with enormous gashes down the side, making them unfit and useless to run through a Goss Community Press and then have these people deny knowledge of how it happened?
And just one more thing: Who would have a motive to do such a thing?
That's the best I can do for now. I'll leave the rest to the the wisdom of collective imagination.
The truth will set you free, and it is out there.
 |
|
