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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And one of the perfessers has
his own suggestion: Brandeis should choose Carter's book next year as the work that all incoming freshmen read over the summer and discuss it during orientation. Carter could visit to talk with them about it.
KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH!
Alas, the spirit of common sense remains fitfully alive -- even on a college campus:
Carter called his friend and former adviser, Stuart Eizenstat, a Brandeis trustee, to ask whether he should take up the offer. But Eizenstat advised Carter against accepting the invitation of an individual professor without knowing the professor's agenda.
Eizenstat proposed the debate to Reinharz instead, because it "would make this a real academic exercise," he told the Globe last week. "The president of the university is not in the business of inviting someone, even a former president, for a book tour."