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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Mr. Buzz is excited that the "respected" newsmagazine Der Spiegel is in "cynical" league with the worst kind of conspiracy theorists, but before we get too exercised, Jeff, what you say about the Spiegel could apply to your friends at AOL Time Warner Magazines (or at BLUNDER, which published the infamous Hitler "Diaries"], whose pusillanimous sycophants have frequently used their power for base exercises in cynicism, whether it's Henry Luce taking both sides on Sen. McCarthy or your former office partners synergistically screaming, "GUNS caused Columbine!" Judging from the history of their flagship rag you'd think the Terror Twins invented the concept of cynicism, and maybe even the word. So don't scream too loud, Buzz. Der Spiegel's outrage wasn't possible without YOUR BOSSES'.