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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How many at Chinese state television will be imprisoned for being afraid to occupy certain sloping walls or "unsupported" floors in Mr. Koolhaas's alleged masterpiece?
Here's betting in time this work of genius sags at its foundation, or proves top-heavy. Here's further betting it wouldn't survive a moderate earthquake. Here's further betting it has a high cost of maintenance. I want to see workmen fix something on that underside -- or people avoiding the building on their commutes. (Let us not forget the impact of substandard construction practices and materials on such masterworks.) Here's further betting many of the architectural marvels going up in London and Dubai and Beijing will prove economically self-gutting.