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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That LARRY!!!!! asks silly questions we need not comment on. But perhaps one question wasn't that silly: "Wouldn't you like to be liked?" To us that's a pungent question, even if LARRY!!!!! asked it. The problem is too many politicians want desperately to be liked, and turn even more into creatures they aren't. Tricky Dick wanted desperately to be liked. Slick wanted to be liked. On the other extreme is VEEP BIGOIL, who doesn't seem to give a damn whether people like him or not, just so long as he can be MR. FIXER and do his favors for his friends. We are not well served by either sort of politico.