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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That I think in terms of tax dollars shows how much the pro sports leagues have defiled themselves.
P. S. When the latest miracle of the ages ended it was roughly 3 a. m. in London, 4 a. m. in Berlin, and 6 a. m. in Moscow -- and noon in Tokyo, where I doubt too many Japanese watched it live. To most of the world it's still "American football." (Which does not prevent some jackass named Tom from belching, "The international audience is estimated at a billion", conveniently using the passive voice to justify a factoid he can't confirm. I guess the British press stinks too.)
One other indication how earth-blazingly important this is: It's the lead story on CNN.com, of course -- and eleventh down the list of "Top Stories" on International. Yes it's the TWXSTERS showing off, but not entirely.