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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Gorelick Must Go (Now More than Ever): The disclosures about 9/11 Commissioner Jamie Gorelick's role in policy decisions to maintain, if not erect, the "wall" between domestic law enforcement and anti-terror efforts continue. As reported last week in the Washington Times and noted yesterday by the WSJ editorial page.... [Emphasis added.]
Jamie Gorelick may be a scoundrel, but the scoundrel won't be removed if she's a LEFT-WING SCOUNDREL, and so long as ONLY CONSERVATIVE MOUTHPIECES get mad, nothing will happen. We're dealing with two different news forces here: bloggers (and their allies of the right) and NEWS HACKS, forces that have erected walls of their own, and if it's news behind one wall it's partisanship behind the other, and vice versa, and these forces have precious little in common other than a need to bang the drum loudly. I'm tired of getting Rashomon with my news.