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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An image of two polar bears apparently stranded on melting ice off Alaska was used around the world yesterday to illustrate the dangers of climate change. These bears, however, were photographed in 2004, late in the summer when the ice melts naturally, and are thought to have swum safely to another ice floe. Disappearing sea ice is the bears’ greatest threat, and the IPCC predicts that it could disappear by the end of the century. However, as such strong swimmers, it is almost impossible for polar bears to be stranded on a breakaway ice floe. It is far more likely that this pair were just taking a breather.
We don't know what to think of global warming, but can we really expect the same AUGUST BODY that gave us ZIONISM IS RACISM to be definitive on anything except rotten judgment?