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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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Monday, February 02, 2009

Posted 5:23 PM by Gene

The Econowiz' anonymous hacks don't think they'll get laid off. "As a rule of thumb, a careful cull of the 10% of lowest performers can make a firm leaner by removing fat without damaging muscle." This assumes, of course, that businesses are wise enough to fire the lowest ten percent. Our hunch is many businesses fire randomly, in a misplaced spirit of "fairness", and when they suffer later they have only themselves to blame. Indeed half this article deals with "talent strategies", which suggests too many of the CEOs who put The Econowiz on their desks solely because BUGMEISTER did have none.

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