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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In an age of marketing, marketing and marketing, yes.
Judging from what I can glean this is the official music-listening list of news hacks. These morons listen to 90-percent rock and little else because it's "boring" or "depressing." (But they will give room for Kind of Blue [sighhhhhhhhhh] because it's a MASTERPIECE.) And the stuff's piped in like Muzak no doubt in most of the luxury news suites. No doubt either these are fitness phreaks who MUST get their bodies in perfect shape and see nothing discordant in pouring musical CRAP into their ears while doing it. Bad music begets bad writing, which begets bad papers.