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'm not hurting anybody," says Bill "Morals" Bennett. Oh no, not hurting anybody Bill. Just providing profits to "gaming" companies so they can promote more gambling and bankruptcies and divorces and suicides and...how MORAL of you, BILL.
Caveat: The news was apparently shared by the Rev. Charles Peters's Holier than Thou rag and Washington Post ARROGANT BLUNDER magazine, so it does have a political smell (PEEEEEEEEEE-UUUUUUU!), and NewsMax is having the usual partisan tantrum over it. Still, you'd think Bill would have recognized the value of -- thrift.