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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14.03 Ed Miliband faced heckles during a walkabout in Manchester earlier, echoing the experiences of the Nick Clegg in Birmingham and Boris Johnson in Clapham. A large crowd gathered around him and his entourage as they toured the city centre. One man shouted: "All platitudes, Dave, as usual. You are all the same." Not clear whether he was mistaken for David Cameron or his elder brother, David Miliband.
Does it matter?
Oh, and...
13.43 Martin Chilton, our Digital Culture editor, reports that the launch of the Cultural Olympiad has been cancelled and theatres forced to close because of safety fears.
Going into hock for THE GAMES doesn't look so peachy now, does it.
Whatever the subatomic particles nominally running the UK now have to spend for their security will be a boondoggle in itself.