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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It did not help that both candidates had -- résumés: with MUG Whitman, eBay; with Carly, HP mismanagement. Still GOOD!
Prediction: Gov. Moonbeam muddles, serves one term.
P. S. When will MB2 learn a candidate spending his zillions is more likely to spend our zillions?
Or in typically tone-deaf prose:
McMahon is content to have Connecticut vote on this proposition: There already is a surfeit of Blumenthals in Washington, and a scarcity of McMahons.
And had VINCE'S WIFE won (and MUG, and CARLY) in time there'd have been a SURFEIT OF McMAHONS.