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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The Washington Post predicts that the "controversy over House Majority Leader Tom DeLay will trigger an ethics war" in the nation's capital. Just that phrase alone, "ethics war," exposes the phoniness of the concept. Does "ethics war" mean that D.C. pols will compete with each other to become better people? Does it mean they'll jostle with each other to see who's more faithful to the Ten Commandments? No, it means one faction of immoral operators will inspect the minor missteps of another faction, and hope they emerge from the petty contest looking more "ethical" in the eyes of the public so they'll acquire more power with which to advance immoral legislation....
The Post reports that the frenzy over DeLay has prompted the House to give members an "hour-long 'ethics briefing.'" Ethics in less than an hour. Not bad. A few moments straining at the gnat, and then the congressmen can go back to their lobbyists' feast on the camel.
And let us not forget the WaPost IS ST. WARREN's rag, and He IS a most ETHICAL God.