By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
It's a Sunday afternoon, and David Venable is in his element: on the air, in one of the kitchens at the QVC home shopping network, chatting a mile a minute about bakeware on his popular show, "In the Kitchen with David."
To put the numbers in perspective, only a few cookbooks a year _ by anyone _ sell over 200,000 copies, says Ballantine's executive editor, Pamela Cannon, "and I could count those on one hand."
