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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And somehow we're not surprised to learn THE PERFESSER agrees the oil rig disaster may have been SABOTAGE. I suppose that's possible -- although it would be so dangerous and cost so much even GEORGE SOROS!!!!! might shirk at it. I know nothing of oil drilling -- but NEITHER DO THE PERFESSER AND PILLHEAD, whose professions are the law and gassing for zillions, and even if they're left totally unguarded oil rigs are such complex things, and oil drilling is not sticking a straw in the ground, that it makes sabotage extremely unlikely -- but not to people whose first love is the sound of their own voices.
And con-SER-va-tives would do well to stop likening this to Katrina in order to mock the Chief Nose-in-the-Air. Competent people would have seen Katrina coming.