Christmas Book Review: Dirty Money, Terrible People by Calum Kerr
By Justin Cash 21
st December 2020 2:38 pm
As you settle in for the festive season, what’s on your reading list? I wouldn’t have imagined mine would include a work of fiction from an advice market veteran, but somehow it has.
Full disclosure: Malcolm Kerr is a long-time columnist and friend of the magazine, having served as a director at the likes of EY, KPMG, Canada Life and MetLife in his 50-odd years in the industry.
So when he told me over lunch one day that he was writing a novel, I was naturally intrigued.
the media who is so quick to criticize everything that president trump is doing and every minor misstep is missing the big point that you know who has a worse reputation and higher unfavorables? the press. nobody trusts the press anybody. yes, there's a lot of bad, negative coverage. a lot of people are slhrugging t off. if you look at the executive order, it has american support. >> kerry, one of the big reasons folks are skeptical of the press is the fact that our president will call us liars, call us terrible people, act as if our intent every day is out to do something malicious and untoward, as opposed to believing, as i know i do, i show up every day to do a great job. i show up every day to tell the truth, to talk about facts, to expose facts and find the truth. so why am i supposed to -- and other journalists supposed to, you know, take that on the chin,