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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Britain is considering charging Islamist clerics with treason if they incite violence or praise suicide attacks as part of a security crackdown after last month's London bombings, a government official said on Monday....
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But legal experts said treason was not the best approach and Blair's office played down talk of its use....
AND:
Opposition Liberal Democrat Lord Carlile, an independent reviewer of anti-terrorism laws, said treason charges were neither sensible nor practical....
"I don't think there's a lawyer alive and working who's ever appeared in any part of a treason case and I think we should tread in that historic territory very carefully," said Carlile.
He said other existing charges, including solicitation to murder and incitement to murder, would be more appropriate.
I agree. Trying to destroy a country is merely an act of MURDER.