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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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Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Posted
5:09 PM
by Gene
An his-TO-rian uses 1,182 WORDS to bloviate why inaugural address stink when the answer requires far fewer: our education system stinks, public oratory stinks, most recent presidents have stunk, and, let us face it, WE STINK, for demanding so little of OURSELVES.
I don't know if it has chiasmus, anaphora or anastrophe, but it sure is less than 1,182 WORDS.
NOW WILL YOU POST IT THIS TIME, G000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLEBLOGGER?
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