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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The Brainiacs are thinking. Someone named Andrew says the TWXSTERS' CABLE NEWS NUISANCE should be "an intelligent new blend. One part CBS News’s brilliant Sunday Morning. One part Rome Hartman’s smart BBC World News America. And one part good old-fashioned Jim Lehrer." Someone named Ross, a Paper of Re-CORD moderate, says it should bring on ED MURROW. Both Brainiacal suggestions are like reinventing a square wheel. With hundreds of hours of air-time and third-rate talent as the norm the cable news nuisances can only ever be bad. ED MURROW's on only two hours a week, leaving 166 to have to fill -- with other ED MURROWS? Hardly likely. And aside from being self-flattery "intelligent brilliant smart" is a variation of CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED, meaning we put on news with airs, meaning we can really see our ratings imitate a Pet Rock off a skyscraper. Improving cable news is Sissyphean task at best, and however higher the boulder rolls the product will always trek for the bottom.
(First intelligent brilliant smart suggestion via the usual Romy; second intelligent brilliant smart suggestion via WeeklyStandard.com)