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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As for Mr. Mark, the solace is he has Jimson Dickey bring FEMINISM to TERRORISM. And with the eloquence that made him a POET'S SON, he concludes:
"It's a new generation, and, perversely, emancipation allows women to aspire to martyrdom," he said.
Finding another answer that is right—a variety of answers, in fact, for many unique societies—will help make the difference between an endless war of terror with "insurgents all around" and a fight that is won, with a peace that endures.
Such BRILLIANCE, Jimson! These two rags must be up to tricks. Does anybody willingly read these piles of toilet paper outside classrooms and doctors' offices? If so, whom? Would it not be worth their while to offer them free psychiatric help?
Mr. Mark's groundbreaking plug must be NEXT week.