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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Obamamania has gone from a certain whimsical amusement to a migraine. That The One's acolytes of the press who've organized much of this headache pain continue to speak in the tired shorthand of the stove-pipe hat and the cigarette holder underlines their essential fatuousness and a lack of imagination almost as vast as Luke Spielberg's. Despite dreams of avarice someday all these collectibles they're helping spawn with their combination Marvel Comics superhero worship and Huey Long foot stomping will be worth the equivalent of a Lehman Brothers stock certificate if they are not an outright embarrassment. But annoyed though we are with the hacks' flying on autopilot on the matter no one wants an embarrassment. The best we can hope for, we fear, is Slick, a middling bumbler with a good economy (though God knows the good economy bit is doubtful enough). Who knows, despite the PR maybe he could do better. He will have to do better BECAUSE of the PR.