THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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Now once we get that national fee collector -- BANK, does that mean half the sports arenas in America will be named for the same fee collector?
P. S. "The building where the Boston Bruins play and where Britney Spears lip-syncs...." Definitely not the GAH-den.
P. P. S. This particular fee collector is happily wasting $100 million on naming rights for a stadium in Charlotte, the day after it announced it was happily flushing at least $174 million down the toilet on the Italian consumer products quagmire Parmalat. Happily it can finance both strokes of business genius by RAISING FEES.