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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Surging for an Answer
Charles Krauthammer: Why can't Democrats admit the obvious and agree that the surge is working?
Michael Kinsley: Because it's not.
In other words, whether something's true depends on your politics. But see Lenny, that's why we have reporters -- they're supposed to ferret out the truth. Of course you wouldn't realize, Lenny, that hacks can't be trusted to tell the truth, only their truth. So we have these extremely irritating gimmicks in which truth becomes the proverbial first casualty.
A STICK IT UP YOUR WAZOO AWARD to LENNY and his Web boys!