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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UPDATE: Pardon my cynicism, but if big news days are the days to release bad news that you want swept under the rug, then is this the perfect day for a particular North Carolina district attorney announce what [a certain highly inaccurate, formerly-spyware-spreading multi-millionaire headline pusher] is saying?
REPORT!!!!!: ALL CHARGES MAY BE DROPPED AS EARLY AS TOMORROW IN DUKE LACROSSE RAPE CASE, FOXNEWS REPORTS!!!!!!!!!! 'WE WILL BE HEARING A DISMISSAL IN THE COMING DAYS'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....
Would this very embarrassing news end up at the bottom of the front page in North Carolina papers tomorrow, instead of above the fold? [WALTER WINCHELL!!!!!!!!!! overemphasis added and link removed]
NO WE DON'T PARDON YOUR CYNICISM.