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.
PERMALINKS:
THE NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY
THE EUGENE DAVID GLOSSARY
AMERICA'S MOST UNINTENTIONALLY FUNNY WEB SITE!
Blogroll Me!
![[Powered by Blogger]](http://buttons.blogger.com/bloggerbutton1.gif){kind=small}
Civiltà Cattolica (Catholic Civilisation), a Jesuit journal that reflects Vatican views, said that “the Islamic masses, which already harbour a deep hatred of the West, will see it as an act of war against Islam”. The journal said that the real US motive was economic and that the concept of “preventive war” was highly dangerous. “If every country which feels threatened attacks first, there will be war without end on the entire planet,” it said.
AND:
Pope John Paul made no official comment on Saddam's capture, which was announced as the pope prayed the Angelus Dec. 14 with pilgrims at the Vatican.
The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, reported the news the next day on its front page under the headline: "A trail of blood follows the capture of Saddam Hussein." The newspaper noted that a series of deadly attacks had continued in Iraq after Saddam's arrest.
The newspaper said the dictator's detention, however, widened the prospects for an era of peace, justice and normal life in Iraq.
OH.
To be sure, it's hard to judge the Pope as he often spoke in vaporous generalities, nor is cinching the truth helped by zingers like "The BBC's David Willey in Rome says there was no mistake about which conflict he was referring to." But even if John Paul was not expressly against the war, enough of his underlings were. Sorry, though perhaps not literally opposed to our war, he was figuratively. This is largely moot in any case. We fought, we won, and things in Iraq seem to be improving.