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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SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGABLOGGERS are DANCING IN THE STREETS shouting, "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!! WE EXPOSE A FRAUD!!!!!!!!!!" That this picture was staged means nothing. Dozens of staged photos appeared in the news each day. Heck could some Web sites exist without PHOTOSHOP? And we are supposed to be shocked that the hillbillies of Asia engage in psy-ops? They're rank amateurs next to the people who send videos to The Osama Channel each day. If PAPEROFRE-CORD.COM committed a wrong by running a staged photo, SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGABLOGGERS did themselves no right by gloating as though they'd discovered another superscript. We have reason enough now to dislike BOTH sides.
P. S. If the SUPES had read the credit they'd have seen this didn't come from the PAPER OF RE-CORD, but from the third-rate AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, which IS easily fooled.