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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Fuut-ball? I've nevah seen a fuut-ball game. I'm not into -- violent spohts.
P. S.
Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who has addressed lawmakers often about his love for animals, shook with emotion [?] during a forceful condemnation of dogfighting.
"Hundreds of thousands -- if not millions -- of dollars are often at stake in the breeding, the training and the selling of fighting dogs. How INHUMAN, how DASTARDLY!" shouted the senator. "The training of these poor creatures to turn themselves into FIGHTING MACHINES is SIMPLY BARBARIC!!!!!" [Emphasis and overemphasis added]
Yes, now we're going from genuine outrage to the manufactured kind. These guys can make the vilest fraud look good.