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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Monday, April 04, 2005
Posted
10:35 AM
by Gene
And it doesn't have a happy ending:
C-SPAN, which usually prides itself on its genteel approach, took an on-air swipe at Mr. Cohen, the Washington Post columnist who took Ms. Lipstadt’s side in the dispute with the network. The host of the program, Susan Swain, pointed out that in 1996 Mr. Cohen faulted an American publishing house, St. Martin’s Press, for dropping its plans to distribute Mr. Irving’s biography of the Nazi propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels.
“We cannot get to the point where the Holocaust, which is a historic event, gets to be treated like a biblical story — beyond criticism and shielded from hostile scholarship,” Mr. Cohen wrote at the time.
The columnist, who lives in Manhattan, did not return a call seeking comment on C-SPAN’s suggestion that his recent column amounted to an about-face.
Figures.
