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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I confess I'm of more than two minds about the reconstruction of that magnificent church in Drseden. On the one hand it's a grand thing to know it's been rebuilt; on the other hand the church's very "pockmarks" and the dark ghostly presence of an original wall must remind people that it has been rebuilt, and therefore it's not quite the same. And I suppose with 60 years hindsight we should probe our consciences that we destroyed such a landmark. On the other hand, that scum like "Doctor Death" still evades justice tells us why we had to do it. Nonetheless its very reconstruction after too long is a symbol of reconciliation -- and reunification -- with the hope that never again will Europe be bombed by the sons of Europe, or anyone else.