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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P. S. at 2:38 p. m.
One source who has been briefed on the investigation said Ivins had been under intense FBI scrutiny for weeks if not months and that wiretaps were used in the investigation. Authorities' working theory is that Ivins sought to highlight U.S vulnerability to such attacks.
I guess he proved we were vulnerable, all right.
P. S. at 3:10 p. m.
He had a long history of homicidal threats, according to papers recently filed in local court by a social worker.
The more we hear of this story the more we think it will confirm every black-helicopter nut's psychoses over government -- but it now appears this nutcase was a one-man black-helicopter job himself.