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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THE longest debate on the floor of the state House of Representatives this year was not about capital punishment or civil unions for gay couples.
It was about whether to remove soft drinks and candy bars from public-school vending machines, stores and cafeterias.
Proponents, nearly all Democrats, argued that banning products of minimal nutritional value would help combat childhood obesity. But critics, mostly Republican, painted the bill as "feel good" legislation that would do little to fix the problem. For eight straight hours on May 18, they derided their colleagues for second-guessing local superintendents and school boards and conjured up images of children bootlegging Hershey bars and cases of Coke from school parking lots.
Why must things be either-or? Why must we be knee-jerk on both sides? Why is it the only people who display "independence" of thinking are infernal wobblers like Sen. McPain, or charlatans like Slick?