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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Edwin Taylor, 44, a former Red Star driver from Maple Shade, said he was hanging his hopes on the NLRB case, because the lawsuit settlement cannot compensate for what he lost when Red Star closed.
Taylor, a father of three, said Red Star's closing cost him a job paying more than $4,400 a month with excellent benefits and four weeks' vacation.
Eventually he landed back at the same terminal, now run by another division of USF Corp. With less seniority, his days are longer, his work is more demanding, his pay rate is lower, and he gets only a week's vacation per year.
"I've had a pretty rough time. This has been quite a strain," Taylor said.
And it did have to pay up through the NLRB, but that's the cost of free en-ter-prise, isn't it Dow? So when CEOs get 100 percent raises rather than 200, or the UNEVIL of MOUNTAIN VIEW misses the salesm -- ANALYSTS' estimates, just think of this guy, and you'll feel MUCH better.