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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Great going, John! That's a lot of money you've pulled down for your connections! Just make sure you don't violate the law TOO brazenly. But hey, what's the LAW to a former AG?
Since the [9/11] attacks, however, the Justice Department has become a key clearinghouse for huge homeland security-related contracts. "That's big bucks," Garrett said.
And as our HERO -- er, that FRAUD the RED-STATE SCORPION said, "I'd love us to get our mitts on that moolah!"
Three clients of Ashcroft's lobbying firm want his help in selling data or software with homeland security applications, according to government filings.
A fourth, Israel Aircraft Industries International, is competing with Chicago's Boeing Co. to sell the government of South Korea a billion-dollar airborne radar system.
Israel, South Korea -- do I smell HEROISM coming on?