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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"With each of these investigations come insinuations that those who uncover government wrongdoing, mistakes, and questionable programs are somehow unpatriotic. ... Would we be better served if more attention was focused on what was leaked rather than on tracking who did the leaking? Why does the government need a list of my phone calls? AND WHAT BUSINESS DOES A DEMOCRACY HAVE RUNNING SECRET PRISONS ANYWAY? If the government hasn't told us they exist, how can we ever know who is being held there? Do you think anyone would have known about what was going on at Abu Ghraib if it had been left to the government to announce it? Some would argue those revelations hurt our cause. I would argue the opposite. Bringing mistakes to the fore is a strength, not a weakness. ... WHAT WEAKENS OUR CAUSE IS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT TRIES TO COVER UP MISTAKES, OR PLANT PHONY NEWS STORIES IN FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS OR BRIBE FRIENDLY COLUMNISTS TO TAKE THE COMPANY LINE!!!!!"
Alas, even as the patrons of St. Frederick of Friendly stood up and yelled BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, the school's baseball team was caught in an INITIATION. Thanks for the good news, Bob.