Yet when news companies had wide profit margins, many kept the event business at arm's length, viewing it as an ethical minefield filled with potential conflicts of interest.
The effect would be to turn general solicitation of angel investors into a minefield filled with bouncing grenades.
"Speaking of which," my mother would add, "the sidewalk in front of our building is already a farshtunken, germ-filled minefield".
The problem is that there is no ready to go legislation in an area filled with international and legal minefields.
Each side has stationed hundreds of thousands of troops on either side of a demilitarized zone filled with tank barriers and minefields.
The destruction does not bode well for Mosul, a densely populated city of 1.2 million, where residents who fled say militants have left trenches filled with burning oil and minefields.
As many as 2,000 Arab and Pakistani volunteers, including followers of Osama bin Laden, along with perhaps 5,000 Taliban soldiers fill a maze of trenches, bunkers and minefields in the area, known as the Shamali Plain.
Take your choice: wall or minefield.
"Counties are a minefield".
