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 July, the Associated Press and Reuters breathlessly reported that a British tourist, Fraser Claughton, had bought an old suitcase at an Australian flea market for $36 (U.S.) and found it filled with memorabilia and hours of unreleased Beatles songs.
Speculation is rampant that the suitcase contains the secret stash of late Beatles associate Mal Evans, which has been missing for years.
Except, of course, it's not true. The stuff in the suitcase dated from 1995, 20 years after his death. Despite reports of a reel-to-reel tape found in it, the Beatles expert called in to examine the music reported that it was on CDRs.
Does this qualify as QUAGMIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
(No, but it might qualify for $10,000,000 on eBay!!!!!!!!!!)
P. S.
Yet the story ran in newspapers and magazines around the world, with virtually no follow-up now that the story has been debunked.
How ASTONISHING.