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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And the answer to that, of course, is the far superior Merle Haggard, who hugged Nixon. We expect tonedeafness from show-biz, but we also expect it from the exponentially increasing flock of Kathryns who'll write the first thing that comes into their empty heads to agitate the hardcore. I'll confess I don't know much about Haggard, but I do know Johnny was, imperfectly, born-again, a flock that hardly includes many loony leftists, and if Johnny was political (we've heard enough of his music to measure the guy), it was in the naive manner of The Folk Song Army, and we've a hunch he was better than that. Johnny Cash was a great country singer; pundits are tuneless.
(Via the inevitable Freep, where they're showing this clown up by complaining Merle's a lefty)