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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One of John Sweeney's functionaries makes me think organized labor can't disintegrate fast enough. And I'm nominally a union member.
From a simple PR perspective this is a non-starter. How do you persuade people by screaming? (And a tiny C-SPAN audience to boot.) How do you sell people that the cure for humanity's ills is a national outbreak of self-flagellation? No, what ST. CINDY did was a triumph of the first order, because She kept the looneys and the commies and the anti-Semites at bay by being a GRIEVING MOTHER FRONT-WOMAN. They should have quit while they were behind.
AND TERRORIST SYMPATHIZERS.