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 the Jan. 9 "Today's Papers" column, Holly Bailey incorrectly referred to Iraq's "$150 million foreign debt." The correct figure is $150 billion.
In a Dec. 23 "Books" review of Carol Shloss' Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake, Katie Roiphe originally alluded to a biography of Valerie Eliot, but no life story of T.S. Eliot's second wife exists. In 2001 Carole Seymour-James published a biography of T. S. Eliot's first wife, Vivienne, titled Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot.
In a Jan. 2 "Television" column about the World Idol contest, Dana Stevens stated that Spice Girl Geri Halliwell appeared on the World Idol contest and noted that she was managed by BMG, the same conglomerate that owns the Idol franchise. In fact, it was former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham who appeared, and her manager is Simon Fuller, creator of the Idol franchise.
A Jan. 5 "Ballot Box" article by William Saletan originally quoted Joseph Lieberman as saying in the Jan. 4 Iowa debate, "To change the subject as Howard [Dean] does and to say that we haven't obliterated all terrorism with Saddam in prison is a little bit like saying somehow that we weren't safer after the Second World War after we defeated Nazism and Hitler." Saletan thought he had included the end of the sentence—"because Stalin and the communists were still in power"—but inadvertently left it out, probably because he was posting the quote around 4 in the morning.
You know guys, if the Wizard of MS devoted a Web site to his BUGS....