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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WATT VS. THE "RELIGIOUS LEFT" [Jonathan H. Adler]
James Watt takes after the "Lies of the Religious Left," Powerline reports.
Posted at 02:29 PM
WOW! THE BLOGGERS OF THE MILLENNIUM are starting to have IMPACT!!! They're REPORTING THINGS!!!!! No MATTER Mr. Watt's op-ed appears HERE -- or have we grown so knee-jerk intolerant of MMMMMMMMMMSSSSSSSSSSMMMMMMMMMM we avoid them even when they offer views we agree with?
As for Mr. Watt, we honestly can't judge his piece. On the one hand, we've no doubt of the left's religious bigotry; on the other hand, we know he was a foot-stomping ideologue of his own considerable distinction. That he or his hed writer uses the word "lies" means the other side can shoot "lies" right back, so it's Rashomon time all over again.