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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I wonder -- what kind of punishment does the NEW! IMPROVED! "Justice" Department plan for this one?
President Barack Obama was notified of the incident and discussed it with security officials, the White House said. It said he is monitoring the situation and receiving regular updates from his vacation spot in Hawaii....
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has been briefed on the incident and is closely monitoring the situation.
Yes, we can imagine. Doesn't that sound like something from the state press?
(More here. This sounds almost comical, but remember Richard Reid and it's not the least bit funny, whatever kind of doofus he was. Or as the last graf goes, "His actions, in part, are why we must all now take off our shoes as part of the airport security screening process." That and Effete Q. Snobs worry that 90-something great-grandmothers and three-year-old girls might try to take down a plane.)