By NOELLE NICOLLS

Tribune Staff Reporter

nnicolls@tribunemedia.net

"Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."

- Ambrose Bierce, American journalist, satirist.

I found this quote on the e-mail signature of Philip "Brave" Davis, deputy leader of the Progressive Liberal Party. Tribune editor in chief, Paco Nunez, once used the same quote as his e-mail signature.

I thought it unsurprising in the latter instance since Mr Nunez also has on his desk a quote from another American journalist, satirist H.L. Mencken that says a journalist is to a politician as a dog is to a lamp-post. But o ...

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