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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If there's one thing to watch out for with NEWS HACKS as much as bias and show-biz puffery, it's when they get into their ZENITH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE civic booster mode; in that mode they're usually rooting for your wallet. Our InkyDinkyDooDoo was a MOVING force behind our convention center, and if it isn't a white elephant it sure had to be fed a lot of peanuts. Their latest gag is that all sorts of younguns will quadruple our downtown's population -- and raise rents. That's music to the ears of our real-estate advertisers -- and Craigslist. It's also a sign that somebody could have phoned in the story and taken the rest of the month off -- or invited a FRIEND to fill the space with ADVERTISING, which in any event he did.