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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My own view is that 2009 has been an extraordinarily successful year for Obama. Since this is currently a minority view and will prompt a chorus of "In The Tank!"....
We last read MR. MELLERDRAMMER about the next-to-last time we read SAM LITTLE. We said before some hacks cannot be trusted just from their by-lines. When an allegedly professional writer allows his critics to snicker at him in the second sentence, he is an incompetent. Today we heard that "imminent" health care reform is not so imminent, that the alleged reform may run a deficit (albeit from a conservative Republican source), that Gitmo won't be closed so soon -- the only conclusion is the guy is in the tank. He's not the only one, right or left, but enough are in one tank or another as to make us view the whole business with scorn. And MELLER has been risible for years.
And now not to read his column again for a few centuries, unless he tries provoking an unintended laugh again.
P. S. ROAD RUNNER.
P. P. S. And of course the cartoon he posts is from a 1980 TV special, long after the great Warner cartoons became tray lousay, so MELLER has a lack of taste to go along with his lack of sense.