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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Indiana native Paul Harding, a fellow at the American Institute of Architects and partner in a Chicago architectural firm, called the lack of a building permit and inspections "a very serious problem."
"If something is not permitted, the whole system is short-circuited," he said. "You don't have the checks and balances you would normally get with a project."
He said his first reaction when he saw the photos of the stage before it fell was that it looked "unbelievably flimsy."
"And after looking at the photographs of (structural pieces) after the collapse," he said, "they seemed thinner and more delicate than you would expect for a structure like that."
And no, the problem isn't climate change, it's suspending 25 TONS OF EQUIPMENT with Tinkertoys and baling wire.