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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PVT. ZELL doesn't want the credit?
Or in another demonstration of SELIGISM at its finest:
While Tribune Co. has been criticized for its failure to put a championship team on the field, it's hard to argue with its success off the field. The transaction's $845 million value is more than 40 times what Tribune Co. paid nearly 30 years ago.
The Cubs attract more than 3 million fans a year to watch a mediocre team in an aging ballpark that lacks most of the amenities of modern stadiums.
If we are to keep the Greater Fool Theory alive we MUST get the greater fools the taxpayers to...hint hint? Maybe the Permanent Mayor can budget it into THE GAMES! WHAT? No SELIGISM in THE GAMES? We'll think of a sport!