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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Bias? WHAT bias?
And here's THE REAL REASON they DID IT:
According to campaign finance records, four of Sinclair's top executives each have given the maximum campaign contribution of $2,000 to the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign.
The executives have not given any donations to the campaign of Sen. John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee, the records showed.
DIDN'T TAKE LONG TO TURN THIS INTO A J'ACCUSE. (An UNBYLINED J'ACCUSE, of course.)
It would be nice, I'll admit, if these companies would occasionally exercise their RIGHT of preemption to cut back on TV sleaze. Just occasionally.
UPDATE: TimeWarnerBADCableNews.com has dropped the ORDERED business for OUR FAVORITE DEMO -- REPUBLICAN, SEN. McCAIN, but the damage is done. This blatantly partisan handling of the story is a template for a disreputable BIZ.