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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And I have a question, MESS: you always show the top-rated stories, but never the bottom-rated ones. WHY? Or do only Little Jeffrey, Bill the Entomologist and MR. MARK get to see those?
Which reminds me -- the blithering superpatriotic moron Jonathan is "the originator and author" of Conventional Wisdom Watch. (Only you won't find the information on the MESS; it appears in the out-of-the-way BLUNDER Media Kit [479,310 on Alexa].) Did you get a standing O in the office (or rather, a standing O-say-can-you-see) the day you penned the ARROGANT BLUNDER, Jon?