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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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Monday, May 23, 2005
Posted
5:02 PM
by Gene
Comforting: Employees of Bank of the Univer -- AMERICA and Watchoverya, er, Walkoverya, er, WACHOVIA stole customer information and sold it to collection agencies.Imagine the fun we'd have with ONE NATIONAL BANK? We're GETTING there! In a separate case with the potential for identity theft, a laptop containing the names and Social Security numbers of 16,500 current and former MCI employees was stolen last month from the car of an MCI financial analyst in Colorado, said company spokeswoman Linda Laughlin.
The car was parked in the analyst's home garage and the computer was password-protected, she said.That's comforting TOO!
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