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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Somehow an ugly glass-brick cylinder is an appropriate memorial -- not for the Madrid bombing, but for a country in denial, a country that begged for mercy from Islamists, that elected a PC SUPERCHICKEN to show it was completely harmless, and has probably grown to smugness, even, as we are told, one commuter on that awful day is still in a coma, and 1,800 were wounded. No, Spain resides in its own little superb hermetically-sealed world, with no reason to get out, so long as a little of what passes for light comes in.
And now we are told that Spain is "deeply divided" -- an inevitable consequence of voting out of appeasement, and fear.