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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Ramsey Clark's STRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANGE.
Oh well, he served in LBJ's cabinet with the man Bob "The Crackpot" Dornan always used to call Robert STRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANGE MacNamara. And of course we must not forget the other long-running pestilences to emerge from those disastrous days: Jack the Wizened Prune and Bill "The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth, So Help Me, I am God" Moyers.
(Don't ask me why that heading appears only on the front page, not the story. Maybe they knew people would make fun of him.)