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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When news hacks use polls as a sideways practical joke we think a one-party state press would be preferable.
And what do such polls prove? That each side has its identical crotchets. GANNETTOIDS, go back to running show-biz press releases and SUPER BOWL AD METER ads!
Clearly news hacks intend to drive us insane with this story, the better with which to assert their authoritarian control. The only faint glimmer of hope is that the public hasn't lost its senses.
Unfortunately GCI has come back from the happy days of $2, but it will NEVER see $90 again.
And so I make myself plain: Did SARAH PULL THE TRIGGER!!!!!!!!!!? No. Should the public dump her in the historical ash heap beside Huey Long and other political charlatans? Yes.