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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WHY NOT?
(Via Michelle Malkin, who can burst a few veins with the best of them. It seems the dimwits at COX, as if out of conscience, ran a riposte from some teenage reader in the print edition. The day this tantrum appeared was a day of much self-hugging in the luxury news suite, and thankfully the only ones who suffered were the operators and customer-service reps who caught all the profanities that should have gone to THEM. I'd bet Mike got a lot of laughs out of that.
Ceertainly it's funnier than his cartoons, which appear to be run-of-the-mill when they're not knee-jerk.
This is a danger of blogging: get caught up in something and you can be a monomaniacal BLOGGER OF THE MILLENNIUM too.)