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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Media and Critics Split Over Sexism in Clinton Coverage
Wait a second! Wasn't this a case of two really super-duper-duper good guys? And how the one super-duper-duper good guy was simply more electable than the other? Seeing how we had to defend our great perk of ruling the universe we HAD to treat the other super-duper-duper good guy unfairly. Hillary can respect that -- whatever her unelectability she's still a super-duper-duper good guy, just like us. And if the coverage was unfair, well, we admit even perfect people like us may have a latent streak of racismsexismhomophobismIslamophobism -- so whip us with a wet noodle!
In short, when you think the hacks are full of it, they fill themselves with some more of it.