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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Let's see how long it takes before the Grand Street Person of Chess complains about the WEATHER.
OR:
"THE UNITED STATES IS AN ILLEGITIMATE COUNTRY ... JUST LIKE THE BANDIT STATE OF ISRAEL - THE JEWS HAVE NO RIGHT TO BE THERE, IT BELONGS TO THE PALESTINIANS!!!!!" said Fischer, whose mother was Jewish. "THAT COUNTRY, THE UNITED STATES, BELONGS TO THE RED MAN, THE AMERICAN INDIAN....IT'S ACTUALLY A SHAME TO BE A SO-CALLED AMERICAN BECAUSE EVERYBODY LIVING THERE IS ... AN INVADER!!!!!"
We'll cut the Grand Street Person of Chess a break; he should know something about invaders -- being a space alien.
But we won't cut the ICELANDERS a break; their IQs may not be much higher than the temperature.