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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Now of course will be a great time for news hacks and thugs like Hosni and The Ophthalmologist to stir up riots. We have no doubt the Pope will abjectly apologize, and the hacks will smile the malevolent smile of the time when they issued bold, courageous remarks like,
CNN is not showing the negative caricatures of the likeness of the Prophet Mohammed because the network believes its role is to cover the events surrounding the publication of the cartoons while not unnecessarily adding fuel to the controversy itself.
People are paying a price for condemning Islamic fanatics. Who would have imagined this five years ago? Will we continue to pay it? Or will we stand up against the forces of tyranny?
Critics, such as Aiman Mazyek, head of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, offered a litany of brutalities in Christianity's history, saying Catholicism too has a bloodstained past.
Agreed. So how do you explain your bloodstained present?
I guess this is going to last for weeks. It almost pays not to follow the news.