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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Kristof vs. O'Reilly Re: Nicholas Kristof/Bill O'Reilly Feud Heats Up
Double and triple cheers for Nicholas Kristof for calling out O'Reilly. Keep up the great work! Happy Holidays!
Mark Panni
Ed's Note: Mark, you'd better be careful with those "Holiday" cheers. O'Reilly might come after you for taking the Christ out of Christmas.
Having already spoken of jokes, and being too familiar with them as a blogger, we think Jay DeFOORE! (whoever he is) is trying to tell one, something NEWS HACKS should NEVER do intentionally. And then DeFOORE! gets us to thinking these are the same hacks who scream at the top of their lungs about THE SE-PA-RA-TION OF CHURCH AND STATE, and whose thoroughgoing PC and DIVERSITY HIRING have helped lead to words like "Holidays" substituting for Christmas; so forgive us for not finding the JOKE all that funny. Finally, we feel sure to say Nick AND the NO-SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN ZONE are damfools, but when confronted with a conservative damfool and a liberal damfool your knee-jerk of any stripe sees only one damfool, a pretty good indication he's ditto.
Exceptional open-mindedness!