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 outrageous statement prompted Imus to quip, "Unlike you, of course."
She proceeded, tantalizingly, to flog unfounded allegations that Miller had a personal relationship with Scooter Libby, the source who told Miller about CIA operative Valerie Plame. Miller went to jail for 85 days to protect him.
"I think it diminishes the problem with Judy and Scooter to say they were involved," she said.
"They obviously — I don't think they were involved, and it's just because Judy has a history with powerful men some people say that about her, and I think that's pretty sexist . . .
"It's not about the sex," she said finally. "It's about the bombs."
The more I hear of this story the more I'd like to tell all concerned to go sulk in the nearest cave.