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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A Christmas tree near the Bird's Nest in Beijing (Bird's Nest? What was that?);
The U. S. Capitol Christmas Tree;
The Christmas tree at Notre Dame Cathedral;
A Christmas tree in Lisbon;
A Christmas tree on "the hangar deck of the USS Iwo Jima, docked in Manama, Bahrain";
A Christmas tree in an Istanbul shopping mall;
A Christmas tree and a Santa at the entrance to Jerusalem's Old City;
"A statue of St. George decorated like a Christmas tree in downtown Tbilisi, Georgia";
A Christmas tree at Sydney's Taronga Zoo;
A Christmas tree in Hamburg;
A Christmas tree in Taipei;
A Christmas tree in Vienna (it's there someplace);
A Christmas tree in Monterrey;
A Christmas tree in Milan;
A Christmas tree in Lima;
A Christmas tree in Managua;
A Christmas tree at the Swiss federal palace in Bern;
A Christmas tree in Bethlehem;
A Christmas -- well, it's a "giant Christmas pudding", concocted by Roger and Valerie Holley at their home in Yeovil, England;
A Christmas tree in Honolulu;
A Christmas tree in Havana (!);
A Christmas tree in Dili, East Timor;
A Christmas tree in Sao Paulo;
A whole bunch of Christmas trees in Puchheim, Germany;
A Christmas "tree" of sugar candy sticks in a Bangkok hotel;
And finally, a Christmas tree in a Christian school in Baghdad.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!