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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No. I think if it ever got to that point, they’d just do away with the news. I’m not worried about the news becoming an entertainment program. But I do believe if we don’t evolve into more than what these programs are today, we’ll go the way of afternoon newspapers. People just won’t see a need for them anymore.
Two things, Bob: 1. There are already plenty of mad commentators on the tube, like CHRIS!!!!! and the NO-SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN ZONE; and 2. We haven't seen a need for the evening news in years.
(Via MediaBistro.com)