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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We'll never know exactly what caused the North Korean catastrophe: the closest witnesses are all dead, and even if people who knew survived, they'd be executed as ENEMIES OF THE DEAR IMMORTAL LEADER for knowing too much. And the truth, one suspects, is nearly as volatile a thing as what blew too many Koreans up. As I said, this will not be a Chernobyl, partly because Chernobyl was NUCLEAR, and partly because there were DISSIDENTS in the Soviet Union, unlike THE WORKERS' PARADISE, which no doubt has a meat-grinding machine nearly as efficient as Hitler's.
One other thing: I do not expect any "international organization" within a STONE'S THROW of the LEAGUE OF NATIONS to tell us the whole truth -- and that INCLUDES the International Red Cross.
Why am I thinking after the cleanup things will return to EXACTLY AS THEY WERE BEFORE?