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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Senate records show 32,890 lobbyists were registered last year, three times the number a decade earlier. Many of those are former members of Congress or their aides. Annual spending on lobbying has grown from about $800 million in 1996 to about $2.2 billion last year.
Ironically, ethics rules already are tighter than they were in decades past. Lobbyists must register and report their income and client lists. Lawmakers and their aides are prohibited from accepting meals, entertainment or other gifts worth more than $50. They are barred from lobbying their former congressional contacts for a year after leaving Capitol Hill for the lobbying world. And they must report trips taken on the tab of private interests.
And no, My Business is My Business, term limits for Congress wouldn't help because they would mean even more power for un-term-limited lobbyists, as if they don't have enough already.