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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"[A]cademic freedom" has mutated from being a protection into being a weapon.
We see it in the egghead factories; we see it in BIG MEDIA: "freedom" becomes the motivation for tyranny. Sadly, faced with the outrages of HYER EHDYUKAYSHUN even Mr. Kimball is at something of a loss, as must any thinking man be. He admits 9/11 may have had at best a peripheral effect on us, and he shrugs his shoulders with an unfortunate (if unwitting) analog to the "if-you-don't-like-it-turn-the-set-off" shtick of our media masters by suggesting parents and alumni defund the many offending institutions. But so long as there's a Harvard there will be social climbers, and so long as there's tenure there will be radical chic. One can only hope, as he does, that "[t]he tide, ebbing for decades, has begun to flow."