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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Samir Husni, chair of the journalism department of the University of Mississippi, and popularly known through the trade as "Mr. Magazine," says, "If we go back historically to the 1920s and ‘30s, there were some magazine editors who were better known than their publications — like Henry Luce at Time and Dewitt Wallace at Reader’s Digest. Tina Brown did recreate the importance of the 'star editor' to some degree. But that was really an East Coast and, to some extent, a West Coast phenomenon." The truth of that sentiment was demonstrated once, at the height of Tina’s popularity in the media, when the Magazine Publishers of America conducted man-in-the-street interviews asking people if they knew who Tina Brown was. Nobody did. But one did think she was the love child of Tina Turner and James Brown.