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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We predict Bank of America, the Musical Bank, will be no more successful with SYNERGY than SONY, or PEOPLE WARNER, or any of these other show-biz piles.
And some of them are in the music biz too.
P. S. Judging from the F-bombs in the comments (here also; this was posted twice) the rabble seems more upset that these guys wrecked ONE OF THE GREATEST SONGS OF ALL TIME than that their employer unwittingly set them up to be very earnest doofuses. A few of them, however, did manage to connect this with the Kingdom of Angelo and credit-card hijinks, among other excesses -- and for that alone it ought to be embarrassing. (Incidentally, though we take no sides here, this seems to bring up more links.)