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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We have a winner -- for the honor of America's Ugliest Building.
The design by Mayne's firm Morphosis [is that a kind of disease?], which was assisted by SmithGroup [DilbertSpell], already has won praise from such distant voices as the New York Times and England's Architectural Review.
But early reviews in-house weren't as kind.
Elevators stalled and temperatures veered from one extreme to the other depending on the time of day. Another complaint: The floor-to-ceiling windows overloaded cubicles with sunlight -- even though the perforated steel panels along the south-facing wall were supposed to filter glare while allowing in natural light that cuts down on electricity use.
That's okay -- it's only our money.
They're not impressed The Paper of Re-CORD praised it?