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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TRAGEDY. Like Romeo and Juliet, or a beloved family member dying of cancer. With such an overarchingly dishonest mindset Jaysons can fib and BOY TOY MITCHES can post-date columns. One word demonstrates why THIS INDUSTRY WILL NEVER LEARN.
I've updated THE NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY -- AGAIN.
P. S.
Mental-health experts who have dealt with those directly affected by 9/11 give conflicting views about the ability of fictional accounts of that day to help people recover from grief.
If the Let's-Sacrifice-the-Kids-in-the-Name-of-a-Pseudo-Scientific-Cult Monitor went out of business would anyone suffer except some editors at USAOKAY!!!!!?