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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Washington, D.C. (Post Alum) [RAH RAH!! --Ed.]: Mike, former colleagues tell me that Don's editorial proclivities are sufficiently Republican that reporters are afraid to write stories critical of the administration. I heard that from several people. I believe it to be true. And I am convinced that it is a profound shame.
Michael Abramowitz: I have been on the National Desk for seven years, and I have seen no evidence of this.
Want further no evidence? See the answer to the FIRST QUESTION: 333 (!) TESTY WORDS that PROVE ST. WARREN'S CHERUBIM do NOT SLANT POLLS. SHUT UP, WAPOST NUMBER TWO NATIONAL EDITOR!
No thank you again, ROMY!
P. S. One of the loveliest songs, I should say -- especially Glenn Miller's version. Nacio Herb Brown and Gus Kahn wrote it.