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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How many of us turn off a mental switch on anything like those last two words on Web sites? HENRY HONEST does this ALL the time with words like SHOCKING!!!!! So does SLIME in DA POST!!!!! So does MADAME AOL HUFF 'N' PUFF!!!!! So does NEWSER!!!!! James Dean's DARK SECRET!!!!!? A pastor molested him as a child. Given how much of Oprah and the Catholic sex-abuse debacle we've endured over the years who is genuinely mortified by such a thought -- especially since the guy died 56 years ago? Lay off the foot stomping, clods.
P. S. One might ask, then why should we care about the Rosenbergs? When were they executed? James Dean's secret surely created great internal anguish and contributed to his tragedy. The Rosenbergs' TREASON killed untold people and helped the Soviets enslave a good part of the world. Let James Dean rest in peace -- and the Rosenbergs burn in Hell.