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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Criticism of media coverage of the Iraq war and the effects that it has on the public dominated a speech given yesterday at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) by Michael A. Massing ’74, contributing editor for the Columbia Journalism Review and the New York Review of Books [ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz. --ED]....
“I’m just exasperated by the lack of good coverage,” Massing said in his speech. “I think that the thinness of that coverage reflects the general lack of familiarity that journalists have with the region.”...
Massing also said the media’s fear of causing a negative reaction from the American public might be responsible for the incomplete coverage.
Which may have something to do, Mike, with our P-Ulitzer-winning WITHDRAWAL FROM INDOCHINA.