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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This lends itself so well to jokes and I can't make any up.
He's investing with the Saudi Prince Alwaleed, and:
Gates and Alwaleed have been collaborating for at least two years. After attending a dinner [SIC] at Gates' Bellevue, Washington home in early 2004, Alwaleed agreed to explore ways of assisting Microsoft's expansion in Saudi Arabia, according to a report from the Saudi state SPA news agency archived on Saudinf.com.
The two billionaires also agreed to jointly support ``selected humanitarian projects in Saudi Arabia,'' according to the report.
Yes, this definitely lends itself to jokes -- the kind in which we're the punchline.
And how soon we forget -- this is the $10 million gift guy.