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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According to the CQPolitics site, which we would call "respected" except that's news-hack speak for LIBERAL, and we don't want to insult it, counting "favored" seats and "leans", the Republicans have 220 seats in hand and the Democrats 203, with 12 undecided. (These stats have not changed lately, whether due to politics or CQ we don't know.) To be sure, the Garrulous Ossified Party deserves to lose control of the House, and things are always in a state of flux until the election; but as people make out the Howard Deans who run the Jackass party they may opt for the jackasses they know.
The more news hacks repeat their CW the less certain you are it's true.