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.
PERMALINKS:
THE NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY
THE EUGENE DAVID GLOSSARY
AMERICA'S MOST UNINTENTIONALLY FUNNY WEB SITE!
Blogroll Me!
![[Powered by Blogger]](http://buttons.blogger.com/bloggerbutton1.gif){kind=small}
Meantime Professor InstaPundit knows -- knows -- it was "a zipper effect [in the heat-resistant tiles] followed by burnthrough and structural damage, leading to the loss of the left wing," that caused the disaster -- this when investigators have just started collecting debris, this when there's no clear visual evidence from earth or anywhere else of the exact cause, unlike the Challenger explosion, which was more or less obvious. Let's wait for the pros, huh prof? Even with your many assistants and contracts you're still only a professor with a computer. I will give you credit if you're right. But remember, your name isn't Richard Feynman -- and they don't give Nobel prizes in law, yet.
Sorry if my bitterness comes through, but it can be a little gloom-provoking when you're typing a blog only for yourself.