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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Speaking of ST. WARREN He's plastered ugly red and yellow signs on some buildings for a weird reason; He has also plastered this odd message on buses. We presume He means the six horses and wagon He's illustrated; with all manner of fees (not to mention all manner of excuses blaming a corrupt Senator and a dense Congressman) we don't doubt He means it.
One little problem though: One of the buildings He acquired used to house a local bank, and with the name change placards disguising its original identity came down, and today there it is: KENSINGTON TRUST COMPANY, which painfully reminds us every time we pass it that once banks were more than fee collection agencies.
(Intended for post on date shown; predated due to G000,000,000GLEBLOGGER meltdown. Corrected 5/17; I thought it was inscribed "FRANKFORD".)