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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There is a danger of over-reacting to last week’s gruesome bombing of the United Nations’ headquarters in Baghdad.
So what will news hacks do? Over-react -- with a new heapin' helpin' of QUAGMIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! stories, for instance. The only surprise here is that Norm's grandson didn't do some foreign-policy "thinking." And the sad thing is there are a few common-sense ideas here -- like bringing in more troops (although typically this writer thinks the League of Nations will solve all the problems) and spending more money on the reconstruction; SuperRummy gave little thought to the afterwar, just like with Afghanistan. But as I said, ANYTHING news hacks said must be taken with a truckload of salt, as their MO hasn't changed.
By the way -- aren't most bombings gruesome? Unless nobody gets bombed, of course. What did you say, HHHWALTER CRRRONKITE?