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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We would certainly like to know how. Little Georgia is not worth us going to war over, but Belly Kisser, just like NUKEMAN, has us over a barrel, forcing us to wring our hands and utter mindless platitudes in place of action. It reminds us all too well of what the lunkheaded Ike didn't do in '56. Of course he wasn't going to risk Armageddon over that strategically dubious parcel of land called Hungary, but his practical silence was a victory for the Soviets. That the Hungarians ultimately won their freedom does not make Ike's silence look golden. To be sure the Georgians may not be risking their freedom here, but for Belly Kisser to smile at our predicament makes us realize that we have molten piles of Jell-O where our leaders should be, and that the future belongs to tyrannies like the Russians', or the GAMES' latest friends.