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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Colin Powell likes to talk to the composer of the first draft of blah.
And with his son they've dictated a veritable SYMPHONY of blah.
Here's where I differ with Mr. Hitchens: what happened in those prisons was wrong and must be punished; the problem is, NEWS HACKS being in the FIFTH COLUMN can develop an extreme case of myopia, further intensified by their petty politics and self-centered ways -- hence the mistreatment of Iraqi POWs becomes the Holocaust -- and because so many of us are getting not to trust ONE WORD out of these overbearing millionaire frauds we cannot even be sure of what happened there. Punish the mutineers (as Mr. Hitchens aptly calls them), but don't punish the aim.