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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Thursday, November 03, 2005
Posted
6:56 PM
by Gene
It is a human trait to sympathize with a noble underdog -- but it is also a problem for a free society. For it amounts to acting on prejudice rather than on principle, which is just what advocates of civil rights should be against.
Charles Payne, a commentator on Fox News and CEO of Wall Street Strategies, this week came to the defense of two groups that liberals just love to hate -- oil and pharmaceutical companies.
Payne, who has been described by the liberal blog Newshounds as "the Fox token-minority-who-supports Bush," (how else are you going to keep minorities in the Democratic camp except through sophisticated racial epithet?) argued on Tuesday that threats, such as Dennis Kucinich's Gas Price Spike Act of 2005 to relieve oil companies of their profits and those against pharmaceutical companies to violate their patents on drugs against such epidemics as avian flu, amount to almost a communist attack on property rights.
One doesn't need to go that far, but there is a tendency to forget what it is that Rosa Parks -- and before her our forefathers were fighting for -- when the "victims" of the theft are not sympathetic. It is why, when such things are proposed, that we need our courts to protect our individual rights, but it is also why we need to ourselves look at cases in their simplest terms -- to seek out the principle that we are acting upon, and recognize the rights we may undermine.
I think it is time to let Rosa Parks rest in peace -- and for DOW 36,000 and his GANG to SHUT UP.
