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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Rubber-necking drivers staring at TV crews who were stationed at a spot designated by the Illinois Department of Transportation nearly doubled the Wednesday morning inbound rush-hour drive time on the Dan Ryan Expressway, one professional observer said.
The delay--it was a 50-minute drive from 95th Street to downtown at 6:30 a.m.--was caused by drivers who slowed or even stopped to look at five TV news crews, said Bart Shore, WBBM-AM's morning traffic reporter.
"The Dan Ryan was a mess," he said.
The TV crews were reporting live on traffic that probably would have been moving at a normal or even quicker pace had the crews not been there, Shore said. "Every one of them had a live truck there from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.," he said.
The DO's DO it again!
(Better yet: one of the DO'S was OURS!!!!!)