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 hate having to write up the NOT ME gang, but some tantrum thrower named Perlstein says in so many words a good many conservatives should reside in a psycho ward. Well, perhaps. So should a good many liberals. Conspiracy theories and the urge to murder your opponents thrive among all sorts of unhinged types, and a trip to a mental hospital might be a calming thing for all of them. If we're going to prescribe psychiatric wards for political beliefs let's at least be bi-partisan about it. But a psycho isn't a psycho when he's your psycho, and here's guessing when said tantrum thrower goes live on his Q&A on Tuesday he either denies liberals can be psychos or does the yes-BUT routine -- which is a variation of NOT ME.