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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We don't trust Grover Norquist. But we remember full well when the House debated the name change (we were in our too-much-time-on-our-hands-and-too-much-C-SPAN mode then) and the Democrats used all sorts of legalistic evasions to explain what they really felt -- that THEY HATED RONALD REAGAN. Well, maybe not HATED him, but profoundly disliked him. Ol' Jim "The Jew Hatin' Pugilist" Moran led the charge as though someone had landed a few too many punches to his common sense. He and his colleagues in comedy mentioned Mount Vernon so much you'd have thought they moved in before George. Yep, the ED ASNER coursed through these hacks only a short time after Reagan left office. So yes, Grover Norquist is dingbatty -- and Democrats are WEASELLY.