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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That sprinter wearing a British uniform? He was born and raised outside Sacramento and had never been to Britain until last month.
The familiar-looking woman with Slovenia? She competed in the six previous Summer Games, winning numerous medals, as a Jamaican.
And what about the Greek baseball team? All but two of the players grew up in the United States or Canada.
The Athens Games will include dozens of men and women who have taken advantage of a little-known rule, swapping nations to compete under a different flag.
Some have fled poverty, looking for a new home with better coaches and facilities. Others have returned to the land where a parent or grandparent was born, where they face less competition to make the national Olympic team.
Sports officials call the number of athletes crossing borders a growing problem. Even more worrisome are cases in which athletes appear to be motivated by profit.
Sorry Matt, I'll say it again: at the GE Bancorp Obscure Sports and Sappy Featurettes Orgy, brought to you by Coca-Cola®, John Hancock®, Kodak®, Panasonic®, MICKEY D'S®, Samsung®, Atos Origin®, Sports Illustrated®, Swatch®, Visa® and Xerox®, "innocence" vanished a long time ago.
And that is why I don't care who competes, or who wins, nor will I be watching much of the Orgy if any, ruffles and flourishes and patriotic duty and 1200 hours notwithstanding.