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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A certain Usayd responded by saying that "the Saudi dictatorship has ... a lot of blood on its hands, and Muslims everywhere should recognise the true enemy is not the US.
"The Shaitan (satan) is amung [SIC] us. It is the Sauds (Saudi royal family) themselves. The Sauds created Al-Qaeda, and then lost control of it," he added.
We will take these words from this new Web site (wherever it is) as sincere, but we will never forget that, yes, three years ago, many of you CHEERED. And MORE THAN A FEW OF YOU STILL DO.
One other problem:
THE SITE'S "IN ENGLISH."