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 the Readers Speak Out, Can Anyone Hear Them?
The answer, of course, is a resounding NO. To be sure this applies to the whole NEWS BIZ, which has taken such great pride in dismissing the peasants with an arrogant wave of the hand and a thumbing of the nose, and now reaps the rewards for it; but if THE PAPER OF RE-CORD can't hear the complaints even after L'AFFAIRE BLAIR, will it ever hear them? That we are dealing with INSTITUTIONAL DEAFNESS was revealed when THE PAPER OF RE-CORD COMPANY bought the junk property ABOUT.COM for no better reason than that Dow Jones overpaid for a piece of bird droppings in MARKETWATCH. If Pinch is unwilling to listen to the skeptics among His SHAREHOLDERS, why should He listen to MERE READERS?