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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The Wall Street Journal isn't the New York Times or the Washington Post, but I believe it's a newspaper with the second largest daily circulation in the United States. So it ain't chopped liver. And Journal senior editorial page writer Robert Pollock has awoken to Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia meltdown: "Holiday in Cambodia." [Emphasis added.]
How many people make the same mistake? The Journals are the Certs of news: TWO (click) TWO (click) TWO NEWSPAPERS IN ONE: squooshy knee-jerk liberal news section, RAMBO free-enterprise op-ed section. A subject never gets COVERED in the Journals; it gets WEASEL-WORDED AND SPUN (Liberal Edition) or SCREAMED OVER (Conservative Edition). And NEITHER PAPER HEARS THE OTHER.