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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Hope this shuts the venal scribblers up -- for a day. This last week or so I have grown so discouraged by what is easily the most partisan news coverage since the 2000 election, and (I may as well admit it) that I write this blog for an audience of practically nobody; moreover I fear I'm thinking in knee-jerk ways myself. I am tired of having these six- and seven-digit politician hacks tell me what to think -- and that they can do it so effectively through the Web means their power is exponentially increased, whatever all the self-congratulation about the populist glory of blogs. Perhaps I should do what GLENNY does and take a few vacations; but the lure of the keyboard is too strong.