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.
PERMALINKS:
THE NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY
THE EUGENE DAVID GLOSSARY
AMERICA'S MOST UNINTENTIONALLY FUNNY WEB SITE!
Blogroll Me!
![[Powered by Blogger]](http://buttons.blogger.com/bloggerbutton1.gif){kind=small}
Todd Gitlin, a professor at Columbia University's School of Journalism [KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH! --ED.], said the MoveOn effort has "the potential to be effective," but only if there are shareholders sympathetic to its message.
"We know how they think they can raise profits - by hollowing out and crippling the [journalistic] enterprise," he said of media executives. "Maybe there will be stockholders who think otherwise."
Some newspapers have cited sagging readership, increased competition from the Internet and rising costs for their decision to reduce staffing to levels MoveOn suggests spreads remaining reporters too thinly to be effective watchdogs. But Newsday also was hard hit by a circulation scandal that forced it to reduce its reported daily circulation figure by about 100,000 copies and to compensate advertisers over the bogus subscriber claims.
MARRRRRRRRCHING AAAAAAAAAAS TOOOOOOOOOO...what?