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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Unfortunately for The One, the guy's a left-leaning Finger.
P. S. at 10:06 p. m. GE BANCORP NETWORK NEWS makes it official: he's leaving. (No link)
P. P. S. at 10:12 p. m. National Public NewsTalk Radio says so too.
P. P. P. S. at 10:16 p. m. Nobody noticed the ASSPress story, and nobody notices this. Here's a big political news story and no one notices. I suppose the hacks are still trailing BO, or congratulating themselves on Sen. O'Specter, or still counting the HUNDRED DAYS.
And since no one notices we will jump ahead of overrated sites like the VOLOKHHEADS, who would be over this in the proverbial New York minute, and speculate The One chooses from left field, in both ways.
MESS link at 10:23 p. m.
P. P. P. P. S. We didn't notice -- Nina Totenberg reported it for NPNTR. They must have shared a few commiserations. (We learned that because it's up on WIKI, the World's News Leader. Pfffffffffffffffft!)