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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As a kid, Mr. McDonald read biographies of military leaders like George Patton, Douglas MacArthur and President Dwight Eisenhower. One of his favorite movies is "The Longest Day," the 1962 film detailing the events of D-Day from the German and Allied forces' perspectives.
The chief executive, who proposed to his wife a month after he met her, decided early on that he would attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and tried to apply when he was 11 years old. (He asked his local congressman, the future Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, for a letter of recommendation; Mr. Rumsfeld told him to wait to apply until he was older.)
Mr. McDonald ultimately did attend West Point, which is where he studied Napoleon Bonaparte's tactics, particularly Napoleon's corps structure, under which operating units perform a range of military functions, making a small army of each. "Even though he was outmanned in these battles, he could win by defeating a different unit in the details," Mr. McDonald says.
So THAT'S how they learn to trample over our wallets and our sensibilities!
(Via SLIME'S Cheapie Marketwatch)