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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Back to the laboratory.
PR BS P. S.
About 2.3 billion television viewers are tuning in for the start of China's first Olympics, more than the record 1.3 billion that watched the 2006 soccer World Cup final in Berlin, according to MindShare, a unit of WPP Group Plc. The ceremony isn't being broadcast live in the U.S. [Emphasis added]
AND WHO DO YOUR VACATIONING-CEO-HEADED CLIENTS INCLUDE?
LENOVO, FOR ONE. (Although in fairness ITS CEO may NOT be vacationing.)
JOHNSON & JOHNSON, FOR TWO.
MICKEY D, FOR THREE.
VISA, FOR FOUR.
Although it lost SAMSUNG and COKE, SHUCKS.