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 concern about a new book by Felt would be its accuracy. The No. 2 at the FBI during a portion of the Nixon years had a mild stroke four years ago and the Vanity Fair article characterized his memory as one that comes and goes. Under those circumstances, and without precise diaries or personal journals, which may yet materialize, any book would be at best a rehash and at worst, unreliable, historians warn....
[A]cademics doubt that, even if Felt has the energy for a book, it would be of any real import. The tale would give new meaning to inside baseball, they say....
Other historians question whether the once closely guarded information is even true.
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