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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Baidu posted a third-quarter profit, but its shares plummeted 17% in late action Wednesday.
The Beijing-based Internet search outfit made $1.1 million, or 3 cents a share. That's down 29% sequentially but nearly triple the year-ago level. Revenue rose 28% sequentially and 174% from a year ago to $11 million....
Baidu.com went public with a bang on Aug. 5. The stock has spent its public life above $70 after pricing at $27. It rocketing [SIC] as high as $153.98 on Aug. 6, riding two speculative themes: the growing interest among investors in Chinese Internet companies and the rapid growth in search-related advertising, led in the U.S. by Google and Yahoo!.
Late Wednesday, Baidu slipped $14.05 to $67.
Here's hoping.