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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Somehow I'm not surprised. The SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGABLOGGERS can certainly dish it out; they're more expert at screaming and crying than all of America's day-care centers. But when the time comes for them to put up or shut up their lips are sealed with SuperGlue and locked shut by Master. We suspect Michelle would have had a case. It might have put the barest minimum of civility into the blogging trade. That Michelle won't sue underlines the essential logrolling at the top of blogging.
And yet she's right about ad hominem attacks -- to an extent. We would never subject any private citizen to them; that is wrong. As for public citizens, and especially those who do wrong, why not? Faced with Snidely Whiplashes and Sen. Whiny Reids the people need every bow in their quiver. We should be careful not to spread falsehoods, good though that may feel -- for a while. But why shouldn't bad public citizens hear it otherwise?