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 French news wire Agence France Presse can barely conceal their glee over this one: Under pressure, US media group cancels broadcast of anti-Kerry film. But once again, they’re deceiving you; the show has not exactly been canceled. [Emphasis mine, although I wanted to use all caps here -- and the strange thing about little is he writes in all caps without caps.]
There you have it -- "NOT EXACTLY BEEN CANCELED. " Okay, maybe that AFP hed is wrong, but THE KNEE JERKS WILL NOT ADMIT THEIR FAVORITE BROADCASTER CAVED. This is the most removed-from-reality blogging act since ANDY S. refused to believe P. R. MIKE was successful. I repeat, YOUR GUY CAVED. What makes it worse is that YOUR GUY DID WHAT DAN BLATHER DIDN'T. You clowns should be CRAWLING UNDER THE NEAREST ROCK.