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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"WE ARE LEFT TO CONCLUDE THAT THIS IS NOT AN ISSUE OF A THREAT TO AMERICAN SECURITY!!!!!" Curley told mediabistro.com in an email. "IT IS AN OVERT EFFORT TO STIFLE A FREE PRESS!!!!!!!!!!" [Overemphasis added.]
I don't think CURLEY (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) should have made his COURAGEOUS DEFENSE of his TRUTHTELLER after CNN'S FAVOR. Nor do we think his executive editor should have boasted that he "committed" journalism. THAT'S the problem.
We wonder, CURLEY (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) -- have you met the president about this? You're a powerful man. You have that option. Or are you merely POSTURING?