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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“When it comes to town it doesn’t mesh well with the economic system you already have in place,” he said.
He dismisses economic analyses generated by bid planners, saying the benefits inevitably are overstated and many costs are overlooked. Economic forecasts omit the impact of the many people who either leave town or avoid going out during large sporting events for fear of getting caught in traffic, he pointed out. Years of construction in Athens have been more than an inconvenience for shopkeepers, some of whom have reported losing 90 percent of their business.
Yeah but if you're a CEO or a top exec at Olympics parent GE Bancorp or you own a press pass, you get a paid ten-week vacation! Isn't that what THE GAMES are about?