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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In one of Oliver Sacks's books, he describes watching a group of people with different neurologic deficits watching the Great Communicator deliver a speech on television. The entire group was laughing, he said: those with aphasia could tell by his body language that he was being insincere; those with a condition that didn't allow them to understand nuance and body language but could understand only his words could parse his insincerity. (In the interests of bipartisanship, the same example would have held true for many, many Bill Clinton speeches.)
Who's interested in being bipartisan, Glenny? Not news hacks.
Glenn Fleishman is a freelance reporter who writes for The New York Times....
Definitely not bipartisan.