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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Maybe. But the fact that this site is now indelibly linked with a crank does not help its credibility. And under the circumstances the fact that contributors like "Gail the Actuary" and "Prof. Goose" hide behind their cute pseudonyms doesn't help either. Yes, we believe it COULD leak forever, and it sounds credible that it might, but we are guessing someone can come up with some sort of solution, at the very least one that could mitigate the leaking. We're not Pollyannas but with lip-smacking words like "[t]he infantile optimism of post-JFK America" The DUHB has furrowed our brow today.