The article appeared on Friday morning.
Not in a tabloid. Not in the kind of publication that traded in rumour and speculation and anonymous sources. In a respected financial journal with a forty year reputation for accuracy and careful sourcing. The kind of publication that board members read before their morning meetings and investors checked before making decisions.
The headline was precise.
QUESTIONS EMERGE OVER COLE ACQUISITION ETHICS AS FORMER BOARD MEMBER SPEAKS OUT.
I read it at the kitchen counter before Damien was up.
I read it twice.
Then I put the phone face down and made coffee and sat with what I had read for a few minutes before I picked it up again.
The article was careful. Sophisticated in the way that deliberately constructed narratives are sophisticated when the p
