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 Plaxico -- PLEXICO story is getting to be the biggest barrel of laughs since O. J. tried to reclaim his merchandise. We can see this guy, a gun concealed in his pocket and his stupidity not so readily concealed, showing off the AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTITUDE for which he's evidently become quite richly remunerated, boasting of his omnipotence and his immortality, and doing a quick Quick Draw (McGraw, that is). Whether it happened that way or not (we gather not) the idea of big rich folk getting a comeuppance like this is always vastly gratifying.
Although most of the time it isn't so darn painful.
P. S. at 7:21 p. m. Or maybe it did.