Referring mostly to part 3: if you're aging in a modern company and do not fully endorse the "company spirit", you will be targeted by younger bullshiters. They

Referring mostly to part 3: if you're aging in a modern company and do not fully endorse the "company spirit", you will be targeted by younger bullshiters. They will perceive you as a threat to the company and use your demise as a way up. In this case it is likely the DB has been tipped by an insider. Newspapers are modern companies like many others: they are under ferocious competition, live from ads and subsidies from would-be oligarchs. Not a place for a "grumpy" old man, no matter the value you bring to the company, if you are not part of the "team".