A journalist complains about your newspapers overly vigorous support of the War. What is the correct response?
a) Promise to crush and slaughter all resistance from the lower echelons until the seventh generation.
b) Harangue said journalist for not reading up on the business tactics of Atilla the Hun.
c) Fire without warning and dock pay with no option of redress thereby guaranteeing severe penalties for such action.
d) Publish defamatory reports accusing the journalist of being a sissy.
e) Send your horde of macho gunslinging war correspondents into battle, and then hope your skillful redefinition of War as a Peaceful yet somewhat Violent Undertaking, goes unnoticed by the public.
f) Promote journalist to OP-EDs while fending off criticism from the Pentagon.
g) Cosy up to the perpetrators of violence in the hope they will reward your company with advertising.
h) Deny everything and engage in rebuttals like: What journalist? There’s no such journalist.