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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So did Mr. Rove give the scoop to The Journal’s editorial page with an embargo not to leak it to the other side of the editorial/ news divide?
Of course he did. Among his many supernatural powers Rasputin clearly knows the CON-SER-VA-TIVE EDITION can't stand the LIBERAL EDITION's guts (or rather gutlessness), and vice-versa -- and he played to that mutual ignorance. The effete snobs blew a fuse over SLIME's deal in part because they were afraid the former would now enjoy precedence over the latter. It's all one to us: the CON-SER-VA-TIVE EDITION believes in Gordon Gekko at all costs, and the LIBERAL EDITION believes in PC mush at all costs.