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 of course it will have nothing to do with the grainy video, or the download troubles (I couldn't see your snoozing cat -- thanks, Citizen Hearsties!), or G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE's incompetence, or rooting out COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENTS, or the inevitable boredom factor, or the fact that people can even more easily run out of things to say on video than in blogs, the rotting hulks of millions accreting on the Web.
Sometimes this Frisco paper is edited as though William Randolph came back to life intending to have even less sense than RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.