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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So far this summer, Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies have torn down 70,000 marijuana plants with a street value of more than $300 million. Most gardens have been nestled either on Mount Hamilton in San Jose or in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where authorities say the pot growers are wreaking havoc on the environment by leaking chemicals into the soil and depleting water resources needed by other plants and animals.
Besides littering the area and cutting down vegetation to make room for the marijuana plants, pot growers have shot and maimed animals to prevent them from eating the plants, authorities say.
HUH?!?!? We thought weeds and the earth went together.