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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The Laugher Curve?
Bucking conservative orthodoxy, two UC, Berkeley economics professors suggest in a new study that lower taxes do not in fact curb government spending. Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer write that the big federal tax cuts in 1948, 1964, 1981, 2001 and 2003 tended to be followed by spending increases and, within a few years, tax increases. They call their findings consistent with the "shared fiscal irresponsibility" theory, which holds that neither tax-cutters nor spenders care about deficits. Noteworthy conclusion: "No evidence of a starve the beast effect." --W.P.B.
HMMMM.