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'd say this is just another attempt by media types to apologize for the mess they've helped make of our society -- and that such fake apologies are no dice anymore, when it's obvious they refuse to relinquish any control over us. There is one word for such hand-wringing: hypocrisy.
And USAOKAY!!!!! compounds the offense with ASSPress's sidebar and these brilliant suggestions to the kids' birth givers: "SET LIMITS", "THINK 'TEACHABLE MOMENT'", "PICK YOUR BATTLES", "CREATE A CIRCLE OF LIKE-MINDED PARENTS", and "STAY CLOSE" [SIC!!!!!]. This is, as may be expected, as useful as a sidebar as a party convention's platform is as an instrument of truth. Wouldn't a white flag have filled the space better?
Definitely:
"As parents, we can't control what's out there," says Dr. Liz Alderman, a parent and adolescent medicine specialist at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. "But you can say, 'You can't go to an R-rated movie."'
A white flag? CALL IN THE HOLY COCKROACHES!
P. S. I thought it sounded familiar: ASSPress first ran this on Thursday. This is freeze-dried "news" that can run anytime -- making its true motivation even more suspect.