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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"I think coming out of the Games there will be a modest but discernable uptick in China's image worldwide, but as time goes by the same issues that led to the deterioration in China's image of the last three or four years, Darfur, Tibet, human rights, job losses overseas ... these same issues will come back and that uptick will be eroded."
Then why do we talk about a CURE FOR CANCER? And who will remember this affair until the next one, save for a few CEOs and Chinese accountants?
And some business-school equivalent of a film cri-TIC speaks in almost excusatory tones of having an authoritarian state do the GAMES, which proves among the business elite there is no sense.