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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Talk about lousy timing.
Stephen Tusa, an analyst at JPMorgan, upgraded 3M Co. to ``overweight'' today, saying the maker of everything from screen coatings to Post-It notes, is a safe investment during an economic slowdown.
Unfortunately for Tusa, the upgrade came hours before the company said it will miss its forecasts for second-quarter earnings. The news drove the shares down as much as 8.6 percent, the biggest decline in more than eight years.
The Big 3 (and Corning) seems to have tanked because LCD TV and monitor manufacturers aren't requiring its screen coatings (or Corning's glass) because they have lots of "inventory", which tells us with any luck HD-set prices may really be coming down.
The industry also overestimated demand for LCD televisions ahead of this summer's World Cup soccer tournament in Germany.
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