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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I'm not exactly tap-dancing in the street about this Foggy Bottom map either, lgf, but what did you do about it? I've a sneaky hunch this is yet another example of what I'll call Limbaughling, whose purpose is to call the troops to order and not do anything. Did you write a letter to Foggy Bottom, little? An e-mail? No? I suspect not. Yet you've managed to get up the nerve to tell us five times in the last week that Yasser died, or was getting there. If you're so upset about this map, little -- and you have a right to be upset -- why don't you DO something about it instead of showboating?
By relying on a few prominent practitioners blogging is showing the same sloth of mind as newshackery.