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 can expect such nonsense from NEWS HACKS, especially British ones. The human race hasn't had much innocence since the snake, and besides, innocence is in the realm of children, who were the chief victims yesterday. Moreover no nation can escape its history, and the Norwegians cannot fully speak of innocence as they bequeathed the world the infamous name VIDKUN QUISLING. Norway has suffered a terrible obscenity, but let us not wipe our slates clean every time such happens.
And Quisling's last words before his execution were, "I'm convicted unfairly, and I die innocent!" Such are the delusions of traitors.