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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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Thursday, August 03, 2006
Posted
8:26 AM
by Gene
Reputation-rich Jaguar is believed to have been losing money since 2001, when it embarked on a questionable strategy to boost sales by offering the X-Type, a quasi-luxury $33,000 sedan based on the Ford Mondeo, a midsize sedan sold in Europe as a family car. That lack of pedigree hurt Jaguar's image more than it helped sales.
Jaguar's U.S. sales peaked at 61,204 in 2002, but by 2005 fell to 30,424 and this year are down 30 percent through July, the most of any Ford brand.How typical of an American auto maker.
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