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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Thompson Strong on Style, Not Substance
We question the ASSPress's veracity often enough, but doesn't this have the advantage of being true? Didn't he get where he is by being a Clint sidekick and a star on the tee-vee? Is it unreasonable to assume a man so comfortable with Hollywood might have, shall we say, a flexible position on public policy? How do we know there's a there there? It must be insulting to someone who has tried in her own mighty way to promote his candidacy, but alas, no there there seems to be at the heart of all our candidates this season -- save perhaps Hillary, whose there is where you don't want to go.