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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Today GEKKO KUDLOW and his co-conspirators on the Big C must have been screaming, BP IS A GREAT COMPANY!!!!!
Well, perhaps it is. It can blow up a refinery, help pay to free a terrorist, blow up an oil rig and get away with it. That must be a kind of greatness. We will pay for BP's sins; its accountants must be working quadruple shifts. The stock will be back to where it was by the end of the year. GEKKO will be happy. The story will be over.
One thing, though: BP must GET RID OF THE FLOWER! Even now with the story over it's a visual insult, a four-letter word in green and yellow. Bring back the shield, or the torch you stole from Amoco. GET RID OF THAT @#$%&* FLOWER!!!!!