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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When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault. Not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters. The buck stops with the boss.
And how many clerks and secretaries did you trash when YOU ran the show, SOB? I notice too you mention salespeople. USA Okay has always been about selling the "news" with a HARD sell, especially entertainment "news." And I'd bet you were chummier with your ad salespeople than you were with the newsroom. After all, a newspaper makes money from ADS, not STORIES.
Here I think SOB's full of it, and then he overflows. SOB and JAYSON are two reasons the NEWS BIZ smells like DISCARDED FISH WRAP.