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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Hartford Hospital invested a significant stake in Blue Back, too, leasing parts of three floors of office space for a regional wellness center, where patients can use the New York Sports Club, in the same building, for rehabilitation.
Having sold the bonds they lease a lot of space to a non-profit. This does not sound like a recipe for long-term growth. Despite the ease with which well-meaning urban renewal projects can bankrupt us the time has come not just to invent downtowns but to renew them, and not merely for upscale childless young couples and gays, but for the vast diversity of people who used to live in them. It wouldn't hurt if some of the BABBITTS who overbuilt our nation into economic disaster might spend a few days in the restaurants there.
(Revised at 5:58 p. m.; I misread the story)