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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Why am I starting to think all this "niceness" biz is code for Gerry's humongous mental squoosh?
Aren't you feeling nostalgic NOW?
P. S. The guy on the left is rehearsing as Prof. Harold Hill; the guy on the right is rehearsing for K Street -- or maybe Chevy Chase's place on WEEKEND UPDATE.
P. P. S. (LAST TWO GRAFS)
In the end, though, it was Vietnam and the legacy of the retreat he presided over that troubled Ford. After Saigon fell in 1975 and the United States evacuated from Vietnam, Ford was often labeled the only American president to lose a war. The label always rankled.
"Well," he said, "I was mad as hell, to be honest with you, but I never publicly admitted it."
Alas, NICE GUY, you deserved it.
Yes the more I hear this NICE GUY routine the more I'm convinced Gerry was a bad president. Why can't you hacks quit while you're ahead?
P. P. P. S. MORALS BENNETT'S MAD.