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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Bring this card into your local 3rd Federal Bank office and we'll give you $1 for every year of your age!!!!! (Green and overemphasis added)
If I could convert my years into fruit-fly years I might take them up. But aside from the lousy $52 I'd collect who in his right mind likes to think of how old he is, unless he's two-and-a-half? (And even he might resent it because he's so young.) THE MASTER hated birthdays because they made him think of the past and how increasingly little of life was left. Age has few virtues aside from SocSec and Medicare -- and they may not be that much longer. There are ways of making old folks (I don't consider myself one) welcome, and without condescension. This is not one.
In fairness, its parent is not a penny stock, and it's refused TARP funds. The promo is still no good.