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 SUPERMANNING OF AMERICA continues apace with the "populist" (aw-how-cute) notion that if we cover our cemeteries with as many Christmas goo-gaws as we cover our houses we show respect for the dead. This being the Paper of Re-CORD it burps, "The seasonal proliferation also reflects a broader emotional acceptance of memorials in the culture blahblahblah." To me this is an unhealthy fixation, and it makes Mickey Mouse dolls and Hello Kittys of our beloved, and it's a discomfiting reminder that in real ways we worship death (witness NO SNITCHIN'!!!!!!!!!!, or the Paper's immortal cri-TIC A. O. with B. O.) Let us honor the dead without bells and whistles.