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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Now let's see if we truth-tellers of the news biz can foment some RIOTING.
(Originally posted from a CNN hed)
P. S. I shouldn't be flippant, but I'm opposed to death sentences for A murder, even of policemen. And had Tookie shown genuine remorse for his CRIMES instead of launching a PR campaign I could understand clemency. The problem is, the people support the death penalty, and too many of those who don't are our effete-snob oppressors, which invites flippancy. And when they bleed over death sentences while potentially profiting from them (as in the hacks' lip smacking prospect for RIOTS) they remind us of Shylock's line, "If you prick us, do we not bleed?" -- and the effete snobs seem only to bleed INK.
We must further consider his goose was cooked when the NINTH CIRCUIT turned him down.
Ah-NULT probably did the right thing for the wrong reasons.