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 know how STARCHITECTS build trophy buildings that can leak. We've wondered before too if STARCHITECTS' indulgence can fight firefighters. Well, the STARCHITECT who built that hideous -- er, CLASSIC building in Beijing for CCTV was building a hotel right across from it, and it was destroyed in a spectacular fire. So we must ask: does STARCHITECTURE start fires?
P. S. at 3:12 p. m. Given all the spectators nearby and the way the STARCHITECT made it slant the Chinese are lucky no one got killed. Meanwhile some utterly prostrate toady for STARCHITECTS says this masterwork for the ages will be rebuilt. Why not? Don't the Chinese have their own stimulus?