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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I HATE such speculative buncombe; Doug has no more idea where stocks will go than anyone else. He can only base it on a gut feeling, the feeling that BEN and His cronies have rigged the markets for the benefit of the extremely select few, and that stocks are going higher on fairy tales. But a gut feeling is not empirical evidence, and the only empirical evidence we have is that the markets are now moving sharply higher -- albeit for no known reasons other than the perpetrators' net worth. This is as bad as any sales pitch on the BIG C, from the other side.
And the markets are not going down until (or unless) such bubbles are deflated. My speculative prediction based on LinkedIn: $40 BILLION MARKET CAP THE FIRST DAY. MORONS!