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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It is the business -- and the responsibility -- of the press to reveal secrets.
So the next time you use anonymous sources we expect you to FESS UP!
Despite the rhetoric of their fiercest critics, most journalists take secrets seriously.
That's why we never hear who those anonymous sources are -- or any news damaging to our FAVORITES, or OUR BUSINESS.
We subscribe to the vision of Carl C. Magee, a crusading journalist whose Albuquerque newspaper infuriated another president in the 1920s with revelations in the Teapot Dome scandal. Forced to close his paper after being driven to bankruptcy, Magee emerged two months later with another newspaper.
Hey J-SKOOL DEANS! Al-Qaida ain't Teapot Dome -- and they didn't have the Net then!
Another piece of trash Jack Abramoff and a bevy of interns could have written.