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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Jen, the situation is actually kind of basic. If a deal isn’t reached by Sunday night, and a bill isn’t signed into law by Sunday night, it is likely we will wake up Monday morning to a market meltdown overseas of a sort THE WORLD HAS NEVERRRRRRRRRRR KNOWN, — and then we will just wait, mute, until the American markets open. Monday will be an interesting test case: We will see just how much poorer the investing class can get in just one day. And then, a second day. And then, a week. AS THE WHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRLWIND BEGINS ITS REAPINNNNNNNNNNG. (JPOD then stabs himself as the curtain falls.) (Operatic overemphasis added)
We profess to being very worried ourselves, but let us wait until Monday; it may be possible to talk us into deep doo-doo. JPOD is clearly up to it. And let us hold our ears to him, as we frequently should, and as we already hold our nose.
And AMITY professes to UNDERSTAND what is going on, but then we didn't need further proof of her fatuousness -- especially as she never met a BAD CEO she didn't like.