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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"You can't buy the elections."
But you can sure as hell try!
"Republicans are much better at messaging and distorting the truth."
Who says close counts only in horseshoes?
He also tells Deborah Solomon that while he donated something like $27.5 million to MoveOn.org and other anti-Bush groups in 2004, and got nowhere, he does not feel it was squandered. "I did what I could," he testifies. "I didn't succeed. You know, it didn't hurt me." He notes that the annual budget of his foundations is about $400 million.
So there’s more money to squander where THAT came from!