There is one obvious mistake in my approach that I will admit right now: For all my cynicism, I was far too bullish about the system’s capacity or desire to actually hear my message. Many media outlets were glad to report on the book initially and gobble up the pageviews I could create for them, but actually doing something about the charges turned out to be far more challenging. “It’s difficult to get a man to understand something,” Upton Sinclair once said, “when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
