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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'Mister Roberts' Goes to Washington
The revival of a play which took Broadway by storm in 1948 could raise subversive questions about the war in Iraq.
I think we can guess what SUBVERSIVE means. (WINK!!!!! WINK!!!!!) WELL, click on the link and here are the first words:
Correction Appended
To be sure, such words would not have appeared in the pre-JAYSON era, but the fact they appear at all, connected to a link with a highly charged code word, makes us wonder how much stock we can place in the story that follows.
SORRY, PUBLIC EDI-TOR, SOME WORDS RANKLE US TOO.