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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Here's another story where two wrongs don't make a right. If the histories of J. Edgar Hoover and the CIA teach us anything it's that the secret-agent schemes can quickly get out of anyone's control. But then many of those whose hearts bleed over these DESECRATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION would take offense in spying even on the HOLIEST of HOLY COCKROACHES and further agree the war in Iraq is lost. Honest, doesn't anybody have his head screwed on properly nowadays?
And I increasingly resent that media of all types take slavishly official positions: the MMMMMMMMMMSSSSSSSSSSMMMMMMMMMM of the Democratic Party, its heirs and assigns, SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGABLOGGERS for Dubya lock, stock and platitude. Can we trust ANYONE to be honest?