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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We have been skeptical of what SUPERDUPERMEGAGGIGABLOGGERS MUST call MMMMMMMMMMSSSSSSSSSSMMMMMMMMMM because they have not been honest brokers, and there's too much of the smell of Vietnam to their Iraq; thus, though the hacks may be "honest" about it, and many times right, their sublime aura prevents it from seeming so. Into this breach step the SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGABLOGGERS, a peanut gallery with a high-tech megaphone, who are SELDOM wrong and who almost NEVER correct themselves. How many times has SAM LITTLE ever said "I'm sorry?" How many fingers does an ant have?
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