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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So...Paul Har-VEH parroted the FBI when not parroting his sponsors.
Needless to say we are hardly astonished at this. A good bit of Har-VEH's act was faking verisimilitude reading commercials. He was also, let it be said, a PATRIOT. Besides news hacks of every stripe parrot somebody. Har-VEH parrots J. Edgar, Walter Duranty parrots Stalin, Thomas L. Friedman parrots the Chinese Politburo, real-estate writers parrot realtors, show-biz flacks parrot moguls -- the rare news hack isn't for sale sometime, and some hang out the for-sale sign more than others. Paul Har-VEH sold himself full-time.