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.
PERMALINKS:
THE NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY
THE EUGENE DAVID GLOSSARY
AMERICA'S MOST UNINTENTIONALLY FUNNY WEB SITE!
Blogroll Me!
![[Powered by Blogger]](http://buttons.blogger.com/bloggerbutton1.gif){kind=small}
The Abramoff scandal is a big DC story and even a potentially national story, but when Howard Kurtz calls it a "story of historic proportions," I have to think people in D.C. need to get out more. Even if Abramoff brings down HARRY REID....
And speaking of that whiny Senator, an equal and opposite number in obstinance is boasting he'll be at his first annual CONVENTION -- in VEGAS! If blogging's so great why do we need conventions? Oh, to rally the faithful. Remember Gov. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHH's successful Internet appeals? For all its yowling mating calls to the press MoveOn.org has been a gnat flying in Dubya's face. Why do I doubt the power of bloggers as much as I doubt the veracity of politicans -- which is what the SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGABLOGGERS have become?
The best known bloggers tend to be the most PR-prone, which means we can't read them without hooking our computers to a lie detector.
P. S. I guess I'm mad because in two weeks I'll have been at it with this typing three years to no effect except to get me excited over trifles, and some of the biggest smelliest bloviators started not long before I did. I hope someday my hits won't be all accidental.