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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I recall your INFAMOUS advertising campaign from the GREEEEEED-IS-GOOD epoch; the REAGAN ERA that we still endure with BLOOD ON OUR HANDS AND A HOLE WHERE OUR HEARTS SHOULD BE!!!!! PERCEPTION VS. REALITY, YOUR AD CAMPAIGN SCREAMED!!!!! PERCEPTION was a depiction of a HIPPIE, REALITY a YUPPIE!!!!! THAT'S when you clearly JUMPED SHIP, JANN, and defected to THE DARKNESS AND THE DUMB!!!!!!!!!! [Huff'n'Puff overpuffing added]
We would say someone who places so much faith in Jann and is angry enough to feel double-crossed by him already inhabits his own personal darkness. As to dumb, the dictionary defines it as "Unwilling to speak; taciturn", so on that score we would only be MOSTLY right.
(Via Romy. We can hear you shaking your head again!)