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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Friendly's Ice Cream Corp., the 500-restaurant chain based in Wilbraham, has dramatically cut healthcare benefits for 454 of its full-time employees.
The new plan provides a maximum annual benefit of $2,000 for outpatient care, and covers only a small portion of the costs associated with major illnesses. Under the plan, employees could be liable for thousands of dollars in bills after a short hospital stay, leading some to seek free care from the state. Until last fall, the company offered them comprehensive healthcare insurance.
And here's the -- cherry on the sundae:
Many Friendly's employees do not qualify for coverage through the company and rely on MassHealth, the state Medicaid program for low-income residents, or free care that hospitals are required to provide. According to a state study, Friendly's had the 14th-highest number of such employees in the state. The top of the list is dominated by other food-service companies, including McDonald's, Dunkin' Donuts, Burger King, and several supermarket chains.
I see no difference between this and the CIA of MOUNTAIN VIEW's extremely tortured entry into the Capitalist Dictatorship of China. It's the sort of thing Jack Abramoffs would think up, and it's motivated entirely by a sense of "screw you."