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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The late great political economist Jude Wanniski used to say....
That Louis Farrakhan was a great man? Oh. Go on, John! Go on!
Well?
I think Tammy wants to say AT&T-T-Mobile will be a great merger because it can replicate the old Standard Oil in wireless, only he's too shrewd to say it, so he dispenses the usual free-en-ter-prise bull even the Aynists don't believe.
Well?
P. S.
How do you pronounce “Ayn”?
“Ayn” rhymes with “mine.”
For now, we'll pronounce it our way -- although we'd like to pronounce it both ways at the same time.
Did Ayn Rand have any children?
Miss Rand and her husband, Frank O’Connor, chose not to have any children.
On the contrary, she had millions of children -- and one of them is John Tammany, who, like many Aynists, is still very much a child.