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 are very sorry to hear that Barbaro has been put down. We wonder if all the noble effort to save his life was really worth it, whether the humane thing to do would have been just to euthanize the horse then and there at Pimlico. One might be forgiven for thinking the money factor but in this case given the horse's supreme belovedness that was surely the last concern. And beloved he deserved to be; Barbaro showed the kind of personality and spunk known to homo sapiens, and if his dreadful tale can improve the lot of race horses -- the tracks are starting to use using more horse-friendly synthetic turfs in no small measure as a result -- so be it.
P. S. I have struggled to get this in decent shape because it's so easy to sound like an idiot on something like this, as if I'm never an idiot on anything.