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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In America, it may be the fin de siècle of the Republicans, but the Democrats do not inspire much confidence. Too many of the party hacks in Congress are pre-Clinton types who want to roll back Bush's tax cuts, adopt a lower profile around the world and, above all, take revenge on Mr Bush and his cronies. If they get their way, the result will be not a change in direction but paralysis and political warfare. If the first six years of Mr Bush's presidency have been characterised by unbridled energy in the executive, there is a danger that the last two could see too little of it, with endless inquiries and investigations. The prospect of leaving the world's only superpower distracted and self-obsessed may be the Republicans' only trump card.