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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At the news conference, Melani and Frick were asked three times whether the merger would lead to lower insurance premiums.
The first time, Frick said the merger would help keep "health care affordable and accessible to the people in the commonwealth."
The second time, Melani said the companies intended to "use the savings to give back to our customers" and subsidize the uninsured.
The third time, Melani said that holding administrative fees flat "equates to a premium savings they would not have otherwise experienced. So yes, that's the answer. There will be savings from this that will go to help make health care more affordable."
Health-care experts said there was little chance of falling premiums because other costs were rising.
Is everybody a politician?