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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We may guess at why; not that many people want to march off a cliff with Ramsey Clark. But we may guess at another reason: the lesson of Vietnam has sunk in. Not the lesson that NEWS HACKS would want us to learn, of an immoral war blahblahblah, but of the following catastrophe of Southeast Asia. Whether or not the war was wise, for us to pull out now portends another catastrophe, one with more than reeducation camps.
But if the next war has a lesson, it will be two-fold; not to believe the hacks who yearn for our failure, and also to look with suspicious eyes at the Professors and Victor Davis Hansons who always proclaim "Mission Accomplished." We cannot countenance the notion of perpetual disaster, but the notion that we have succeeded beyond our wildest dreams sounds like a man talking himself into optimism. And when it comes to war, optimism can be as deadly a sin as pessimism.