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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Werth, unquestionably, has started slowly. He’s hitting .227 with a .324 on-base percentage, a .387 slugging percentage and four home runs. He realizes now that he altered his approach as a hitter, pressing to carry the Nationals rather than emphasizing what made him one of the National League’s 10 most valuable players the past two seasons.
In April, he noticed what had happened to Carl Crawford, who signed a seven-year, $142 million contract to play for the Boston Red Sox. He went 15 for 97 in April and the Red Sox moved him to eighth in their lineup. In Crawford, Werth saw himself.
As well he might.