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'm thinking now every time NEWS HACKS have a beef with people in our government they'll call it "un-American." (Oddly and predictably, the word isn't in the article.) I wouldn't do that, St. Warren. The word originated with Communist-hunters, who were (as we all know from your indoctrina -- from your REPORTING) the height of EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL. Perhaps un-American should be expunged from the NEWS HACK'S vocabulary because it is a firecracker of a word, or maybe a Molotov cocktail, one whose sole purpose is to inflict hurt. Problem is, your firecrackers have a way of boomeranging.