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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The financing underpinning of the deal is complex. Starting more than two years ago, Ferchill negotiated 22 different layers of financing, including investor equity, bank loans, and multiple levels of tax credits keyed to historic preservation, brownfield cleanup and environmental conservation.
We would not be surprised to learn this is mostly taxpayer-financed. If so, this project could be gutted again in less time than it will be rebuilt. We know too the delusions people harbor that downtowns can be rebuilt. All said we hope this works -- there's enough to work against it.
Elsewhere a fine old Detroit bar (these hacks MUST call it LEGENDARY) is being replaced by something called the Rosa Parks Transit Center, whose very name summons the cities' uphill climb.