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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For a man who rode to the presidency on the wings of his oratorical gems, Barack Obama has uttered remarkably few memorable phrases since taking office.
What? The GREATEST SPEECHMAKER IN AMERICAN HISSSSSSSTORY?????
We don't want to get obsessive on the topic -- heck even Boobs McKeating's help all but admits the guy couldn't campaign his way out of a shoe box -- and we're not knee-jerk conservative, but dammit if we don't have a state press sometimes -- which might account for the enthusiasm for a bailout; it would merely formalize the state end.
We must take a rest from The New! CW.