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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And KAPLAN, INC. had to remind me of JAKE with this spam, once more, in my mailbox.
P. S. The clown who inficts JAKE on us has put a .PDF FILE on His company's corporate Web site defending ITS NUMBER-ONE BUSINESS. When these folks can't demoralize us they can cheat us.
Oh -- LOVE that snazzy new logo, Donny! How much did that cost ST. WARREN?
And you're STILL KAPLAN, INC.!
P. S.
Not so smart, Donny -- Wickes Companies inspired THREE bankruptcies! (The trademark was used until recently for a UK home-improvement chain which was a former joint venture of Wickes.)