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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Maybe that's why Sandy Burglar hired her, n'est-ce pas?
Meantime the P-Ulitzer co-winner's candidate of 2004, Mis-tah HEIN-TZZZ, begins his next campaign with a Cooper Union speech in which he says abandoning Iraq in the name of a noble cause is right and just. I think it's time Mary gave him some more money!
P. S. The PAPER OF RE-CORD says the P-Ulitzer co-winner has an "independent" streak. (Judging from those campaign contributions we'd say it's more of a Democratic streak.) It further says her P-Ulitzer co-winning work may have come thanks to "low morale" at the Langley Acrostics Palace. It still further says her career "stalled" when YOU-KNOW-WHO took over.
"It looks to me like Mary is being used as a sacrificial lamb," said Larry Johnson, a former C.I.A. officer who worked for Ms. McCarthy in the agency's Latin America section.
I don't know -- her bleating was loud enough to win an award.
I think we'll hear far more about (and presumably from) the P-Ulitzer co-winner these next few weeks than we'll want to.