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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4/20/2005 4:24:20 PM
From GEORGE R. ZACHAR: The philosophical bind of modern newspapers does go back to the famous "afflict the comfortable" Dunne slogan. Dunne never anticipated that the ranks of the comfortable would swell, becoming the bulk of newspapers' readership.
Modern scribes (and publishers and editors) have yet to figure out that afflicting their customers is bad for business.
Actually, they have. That's why the afflict the afflicted (i.e., the private tragedies of Mort Zuck's NOO YAWK DAILY NOOZ) and comfort the comfortable (i.e., LEGENDARY WELCH).