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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NY TIMES SUGGESTS ARAFAT DIED OF AIDs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [sic]
NO IT DIDN'T. Here is what THE PAPER OF RECORD says -- in the ninth graf:
[L]ow platelet counts in the blood are a common finding in a wide range of afflictions, including severe infections, liver disease, end stage cancer and even AIDS.
We know ALL ABOUT the rumors that Yasser was GAY, and have no reason to doubt them, given how it would have raised his STANDING in the ARAB WORLD. But lacking solid evidence that he was, we should not speculate how he died -- unless, of course, you're NEWSMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That he killed thousands was bad enough.