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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A Christmas tree "outside Zappeio Conference Hall in Athens";
A Christmas tree "on Skeppsbro quay in the old town of Stockholm";
A Christmas tree "on the Grand Place in Brussels";
A Christmas tree outside No. 10 Downing Street in London;
A Christmas tree "displayed during a night bazaar in Manila";
A Christmas tree "the West Bank town of Beit Sahur near Bethlehem";
A Christmas tree outside the U. S. Capitol, from when it snowed the other day;
A Christmas tree in Kiev (evidently they call it a New Year's tree there);
A Christmas tree outside the Parliament in Tbilisi, Georgia;
A Christmas tree made of Lego bricks [!!!!!] at a shopping mall in Jakarta (how apt);
A Christmas tree "at the Esplanada dos Ministerios in Brasilia";
A Christmas tree (of sorts) "by Italian artist Antonio Barrese dedicated to Futurism, (as) seen during its inauguration under a heavy snowfall, in Milan";
A Christmas tree, complete with caroling kids, "during a photo call at a promotional event for the Christmas holiday season, at the Everland Amusement Park in Yongin, about 50 km (31 miles) south of Seoul";
A Christmas tree "inside the perimeter of the compound of the United States Interests Section in Havana";
A Christmas tree in Mexico City, where the locals were gathered on this evening to hear Placido Domingo;
A Christmas tree "on the inner lake Alster in downtown Hamburg";
A Christmas tree "during the launch of 'Beirut Celebrates' at a Christmas parade in downtown Beirut";
A Christmas tree celebrating "the theme 'American Christmas' in the Krebs Glas Lauscha GmbH company in Lauscha, central Germany. The company is one of the leading global manufactures [SIC] of Christmas ornaments." (Again, how apt)
The Christmas tree at the Vatican;
A Christmas tree "at a Paris department store";
Back to Jakarta for "a Christmas tree in a shark tank at (the) Sea World aquarium";
A Christmas tree -- well, let's use the Reuters caption: "U.S Army soldiers medic Pfc. Rogue Carmona (L) and squadron physician Major David Gaitonde from Task Force Denali 1-40 CAV work at their desk near a Christmas tree at a clinic at FOB Clark in Khowst province, Afghanistan";
And finally, a Christmas tree and a girl in Baghdad.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!