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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A Christmas tree in Frankfurt;
Christmas trees in "Tokyo's Odaiba bay area";
A, er, Christmas tree in Detroit (the man's name, Reuters tells us, is Joe T. Sanders);
THE OFFICIAL PEOPLE WARNER CHRISTMAS TREE in Jakarta, made of "1,390 Looney Tunes dolls" (Reuters and Yahoo! cut off the caption after the word "Looney");
A Christmas tree in Dubai (it's a wonder they just don't build a building that looks like a Christmas tree);
A Christmas tree in Beirut;
A Christmas tree in Vilnius, Lithuania;
A Christmas tree in Kabul;
Another Christmas tree in Jakarta, in a church, "made out of 6000 used cans";
A Christmas tree at St. Peter's Basilica;
A Christmas tree in Malaga, Spain;
A Christmas tree in "Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, near Soldotna, Alaska" (the AP tells us these are Jeff Selinger and "his son Zack, 7");
A "Living Christmas tree" in Seoul;
A Christmas tree in Stavropol, Russia;
A Christmas tree at the Colosseum;
A Christmas tree (Reuters insists) at Washington's Botanical Gardens;
A Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square;
A Christmas tree at the San Francisco Zoo;
A Christmas tree at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem;
A Christmas tree in Chongqing, China, made of "thousands of Coca-Cola cans" (my teeth can appreciate that);
A Christmas tree "in the middle of Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris";
A chocolate Christmas tree in Bangkok, with 35,000 M&Ms (why not Reese's Pieces?);
A Christmas tree surounded by beuatiful architecture at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin (he said);
And finally, a Christmas tree in Basra.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!