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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And no, just because they work for an allegedly "con-SER-va-tive" news operation means nothing.
P. S. at 7:40 p.m.: I think I should explain myself to those of you coming across me via Real Clear Politics (thank you AGAIN, RCP!): First off, I hope you read me, and find me amusing. Second, it's a tradition with me (or rather a very bad habit) to use rows of exclamation points after the names of conservative outfits that have an exaggerated sense of power, or with anything related to Rupert Murdoch, who is with his empire what Khrushchev was with his shoe. I know I have a weird way with my words, but I'd rather be weird than bland. And I meant to say that I wonder if even a conservative news organization can't be subjugated by PC politics just as easily as AP or Al Reut; and we should remember at heart Rupert is no conservative.
Again, I hope you read me, and come back at least a couple of times.