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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On CNN's "The Situation Room" yesterday -- in an episode we assume was meant to be funny -- the channel's senior analyst Jeff Greenfield let loose with an inane criticism of Democratic Senator Barack Obama's wardrobe, upping the ante on the New York Times' Hillary/Barack silliness from last week.
Wait a second -- Jeff Greenfield's supposed to be inane! They pay him all that moolah to be inane -- and Wolf Blitzer and Anderson and Lollipop Lou and Jack Cafferty and all their talking heads! Since when are we supposed to be aghast that Jeff Greenfield's INANE? It goes with the territory.
(Via the usual Romy, who may also be nonplussed to learn Jeff Greenfield's inane)