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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He may not be Jack Welch, the best-selling chest-thumper who preceded him, but he knows how to lead and how to get results. His pitch is perfect. The day will come when he is viewed as the prototypical corporate leader for the new century. That day is not here yet, but it will come.
We would guess that day is slowly receding over the financial horizon.
But HEARSTIES are nothing without their fingers in the wind, so we get this cutesy-pie last sentence fragment:
Unless the board fires him first.
Did some anonymous hack catch himself making a boo-boo?
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