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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With Iraq, "the antiwar movement has been much more careful. You never see attacks on the troops. I think the Democrats have actually been aggressive in responding to that, saying, `We don't want American lives lost in this pointless war.' Which is not what was happening in Vietnam, where the left reacted to the war as Western imperialism," Nunberg said.
Meantime the idiot pollster Frank Luntz breaks wind for the 517th time this week, with a "pullout quote" (?!?):
The best counter-punch for anti-war Democrats seeking to blunt attacks that they don't `support the troops': "`You support them by bringing them home.' That's probably the best line they have at this point," said Frank Luntz, a Republican strategist.
If Orwell taught us anything, it's that politicians (and their helpers, be they lin-guists or pollsters) will always use the language to lie.
By the way, Clatch, why do you refer to your wire service as KRT?