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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TRANSLATION: CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW PREVENTING MY CLIENTS ON THE SIX-DIGIT LECTURE CIRCUIT FROM SPENDING UMPTEEN ZILLIONS ON DISHONEST AND IRRITATING CAMPAIGN ADS!!!!!!!!!!!
Time to RETIRE, MB2!
I'd say Zephyr Teachout, visiting assistant professor at Duke Law School, can rest assured that she will earn a tenured post at a prestigious law school one day. All she needs to put in her file is today's column by George F. Will, who devotes his entire Sunday space to criticizing a recent law review article by Teachout. What better proof of her merit to a liberal-dominated tenure committee than to be attacked by America's leading conservative newspaper columnist? She couldn't have asked for more.
Uh, I think it backfired, MB.