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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Okay John (or should that be Tammy?), how do we start growing again? "By letting our citizens produce as freely as possible!!!!!" All right Tammy -- John, but what if no one can afford all the goods we produce because people don't have the money and credit's dried up -- and maybe because they already have too many goods anyway?
(Via Contentions, which calls John's RealClear thinking "a good idea")
Correction on 1/5/2009 at 7:03 p. m.: Our bad -- it's Tamny. Sorry about that. But it doesn't entirely let him off the hook; how about...Tamny Hall?
Well I thought it was funny.