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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This is a classic kind of news hack story. People die every day, usually in ways that ought to concern JERNALISTS; but tragedies like this so knot up the hacks' nerves they can only seek relief by expressing themselves in hundreds of dispatches taking up millions of column inches -- another reason THE NEWS IS NO LONGER WORTH PAYING FOR.
P. S. I have commented before on Yahoo! News's instant junk polls. While they should not be taken seriously, I've come to believe a low rating means impatience with a story. But again, I wouldn't place too much emphasis on such junk -- or the NEWS HACKS' JUNK.