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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I can't help thinking that Huckabee and his team saw the floating cross ad response and thought, great! How can re replicate this? Huge media pickup, of the ad and of Huckabee's statement about the ad. Ask Huckabee about this on cable, Chris Matthews, and he'll be only too happy to tell you about how weary real Americans are of consultants and their negative ads! How he's turning the other cheek on Romney, so desperate that he needed to rush a few millions more into ads to counter Huckabee's natural swelling popularity! The media can laugh at Huckabee all they want, and feel smug that they can see through such a transparent ploy. But after a day of blanket coverage, I can't help thinking that it just might be Huckabee who has the last laugh.
If so, it was a mighty expensive joke.
Huckabee isn't running the ad, which means he isn't paying for it.
If I could tally all the times SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGABLOGGERS and their companions paraded their ignorance....
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