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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The jackass Michiko made it official: ED'S A NEWSMAN.
And a special tribute to the NEW! IMPROVED!! ROMY!!! for THIS one:
An unnamed Fox News spokesman tells Howard Kurtz that "being out of touch with mainstream America is nothing new to Jon, as evidenced by the crash-and-burn ratings of this year's Oscars telecast." (By the way, Kurtz violates the Washington Post sources/attribution policy, which states: "Sources who want to take a shot at someone in our columns should do so in their own names.")
Which he would not have violated if the source had been at the equal and opposite buffoonery of the MESS.