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 is the day of the Stewart-Colbert rallies in D.C., and the inside-the-beltway pundit types are discombobulated. Besides the fact that many of them have no sense of humor, they are still smarting from Colbert’s on-target skewering during the Bush years at the WH Correspondent’s dinner (covered on the blogs, ignored in the media.) Don’t think for a second that the self-important media has forgiven or forgotten. It will shape today’s coverage.
As in:
Yes, the self-important media have not forgotten...their self-importance!
(Direct link substituted above for a TinyURL so you can get the full flavor of another heavily ironic with-it in-with-the-in-crowd uncritical RAVE)