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.
This remarkable video has surely exploded on the Web; we first found it on HENRY HONEST's site, and it's popped up on ARCHDaily! We now suppose most of the deaths from this calamity occured along the coast; if as now appears evident Japan's interior escaped with just collapsed false ceilings that's a tribute to modern engineering.
P. S. on 3/12/2011 at 10:11 p. m. DailyMail.co.uk has uncovered what is apparently the original of that video at 3'52 here.