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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Tip for editors: Put iPod scam stories next to war articles
This is just a variation of being RIGHT ON, WITH IT and NOW! Younger readers will still see the MIDDLE-AGED men pulling the strings. And even if we killed off every last MIDDLE-AGED staffer and replaced them with twenty-somethings (but remember: your survivors will collect DEATH BENEFITS when you turn THIRTY), the idea that "iPod scams" should be equal to "war stories" is at least as offensive in its condescension as in its priorites. (Odd too in that it comes from a collegiate editor, which suggests she has a BRIGHT FUTURE in the biz.) No, maybe reading newspapers is simply for OLD FOLKS.