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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We should never take this sort of thing lying down. Great art transcends politics, and the swing era was great art. The only time the names he mentions crossed over into politics was when Satch blasted Perpetually Underrated Ike for his stupidity on civil rights.
Although Glenn Miller and Satch each recorded a scabrous tune called "W. P. A."; Glenn never released his version, apparently under pressure from John Hammond and the then-powerful Musicians' Union. Then again we wonder if con-SER-va-tives would call Glenn a COMMIE for having recorded an Irving Berlin tune celebrating FDR's birthday. (It was a fundraiser for the March of Dimes.) As we said, who cares? These were great musicians in any language and beyond politics. Moreover Glenn gave his life for his country, which is a big reason this music lover reverences his name, and that's more than most conservative pundits can claim.
(Via the usual Corner)