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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"Suppose you made a million dollars last year and put all but $50,000 of it in a shoebox," he writes. (He must have enormous feet.)
We have not seen a $100 bill in a while but we'd guess $950,000 in Benjamin Franklins would fit very snugly in a shoebox. Where the other side is right is in imagining someone who's earned a million a year would put $950,000 of it in a shoebox. Where both sides are right is in imagining there are better things to do with money, namely redistributing it to their friends.
A PLAGUE O' BOTH YOUR HOUSES!
P. S. Well ALL RIGHT, they might not fit in one shoe box, but they might fit in two.