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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Miscreant no. 1 now works in TV news.
Miscreant no. 2 was a news hack.
Miscreant no. 3 was a news hack.
Miscreant no. 4 is in show-biz.
Miscreant no. 5 is in show-biz.
Miscreant no. 6 is in show-biz.
Miscreant no. 8 is a news hack.
And the last scot-free miscreant, Rev. Race-Card, should also be counted with the seven miscreants above as he's a favorite of news hacks.
In short, what most of the miscreants John Leo mentions have in common are MEDIA, and most people these days consider MEDIA a moral and ethical cesspool. Judgmentalism isn't quite dead yet.