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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The reluctance on the part of artists to do anything smacking of patriotism, let alone jingoism, is a relatively recent phenomenon. In the past, such varied names as Winslow Homer, Frederick Church, Thomas Hart Benton, and Norman Rockwell happily worked to mobilize the public in times of war. But for at least a generation, explicit political activism among artists has been the province of the Left, and the task of rallying national resolve has fallen by default to those stalwart reflectors of populist sentiment, country music and tabloid cartoons. See, for example, the songs of Charlie Daniels ("The Last Fallen Hero") and Toby Keith ("Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue") and the wickedly inventive cartoons of Sean Delonas of the New York Post.
So: the left greets us with the upraised fist and the upraised leg; the right greets us with country music, cartoons and treacle. What a galling age.