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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I'M DONE VENTING NOW [John J. Miller]
If you've ever wondered about the politics of magazine editors, check out the 23rd greatest magazine cover of the last 40 years.Some one needs to tell the folks at ASME (i.e., the American Society of Magazine Editors) that their acronym really could use a second "S." Truth in advertising.
Posted at 02:40 PM
Agreed that magazine editors are AS(S)ES -- how could they not be in a biz that's spawned HANK LUCE and GRAY-DON and TINA and MR. MARK -- and BILL BUCKLEY -- and LISTS ARE STUPID THINGS DONE BY MAGAZINE EDITORS, and granted their list is CW and PC to the NTH, but NUMBER 35 should assuage you.
