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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CURLEY (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) SPEAKS:
It is a measure of just how dangerous and disorienting Iraq has become that suspicions such as these are considered adequate grounds for locking up a man and throwing away the key.
It is a measure of just how dangerous and disorienting the news biz can be that the leader of the ASSPress could once insist his business is run by CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS. It is also a measure of how dangerous and disorienting it can be when CURLEY (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) can speak of Bilal as though he knew him intimately, when in fact we suspect he's known him well only since the P-Ulitzer, and especially since his boys turned his detention into a J'ACCUSE! We do wish CURLEY (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) at least had the guts to proclaim his prize photographer a political prisoner, as that would put the difference between our superiors the NEWS HACKS and we mere peon news consumers in bold relief.