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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The sale of honours is a time-honoured practice of which all major political parties have been guilty. But a very modern horror — one of the ways this Prime Minister has chipped away at our concept of law — is a weakening public grasp of what are the rules, who are the referees and how those caught cheating should react. Amid a bewildering starburst of initiatives, czars, commissions, audits and inquiries, we are left in a looking-glass world where a hundred things are said and unsaid, done and undone, promised and unpromised, ruled and rescinded, before breakfast. In all this confusion, the shrill blast of a police whistle may yet serve to steady the nation.
Problem is, the shrill blasts of police whistles have left much of our ruling class deaf.
(Via The Corner)