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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I don't know that we should be citing the Roman Empire, though. It felt pretty good about itself too. Nor do I think we should cite the 2004 election as proof of increased voter interest; that was largely a referendum on one of the greatest DO'S in the Senate and his party's wussiness on defense. Nor do I think we can justify the billions in sleaze by uttering folderol like "Americans are busy striving and risking their lives and making the world better, as they have been since World War II." Heck, they've been doing it since the first colonials. We forget their toil. We do remember the scandals, however. And one can't help guessing if the time will come that they so accrete on our ship of state that the whole thing goes under.