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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Then, Koppel added: ``I know it's fashionable just to look upon Al-Jazeera as being a propaganda outlet for Al-Qaida. But, you know, Tom and I have been covering the Middle East for many, many years, and all I can tell you is Al-Jazeera is a huge step up from where the Arab world's journalism has been over the past 40 years.''
1. You said Henry the K was a superb secretary of state too, frequently to his face. 2. Sometimes the fashionable has an inconvenient way of also being true. 3. We look upon that huge step up much as the elephant might look on an army of ants scaling a sugar cube.
We thought we'd run this now that The Osama Channel gang has issued another press release. Hope you were on top of the cheer -- STORY, Dave!