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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Many of the groups that worked alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., are now struggling to stay alive.
We can see why your typical news hack would consider this bad news. We consider it good news; it means the organizations that were so necessary to break down race barriers aren't necessary anymore, as the barriers are broken down. But this would be bad news to those organizations, which have turned to such divisive issues as affirmative action to keep their donations going. This however is more good news for the hacks, as they never met race-baiters they didn't like.
Our hacks will not be satisfied until America splits into a million little groups, every one at perpetual war with another. And if they think it can sell newspapers -- what Web have they been perusing?