Posted 8:45 AM by Gene

[T]here's something about the ethics-obsessed contemporary newsroom that borders on the priggish. Several years ago, an L.A. Times photographer lost his job when it turned out that the prize-winning Malibu fire picture he'd shot of a fireman dousing his head with water had been staged. (The fireman had been dousing his head; the photog had just asked him to do it again.)

I'm convinced the reason NEWS HACKS pay such lip service to "ETHICS" is that they think it allows them to be biased with impunity.

"Whenever you lose a newspaper, I don't care if its good, bad, or whatever, you've lost one hell of a thing."

And when monopolies like OMERTA'S RAG go out of business, no one will mourn -- perhaps because, so heavily influenced by the NEWS HACKS, people will have stopped learning how to read.