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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In all the debates over whether memoirs should be held to the same standards as historical books, we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that books, ultimately, are consumer products, like laundry detergent or cereal or cars. Frey wrote the book as much to make money from it as to inspire others. Doubleday published it to make money. Oprah’s empire exists to make money.
They’re all brands, and a brand is a promise to the consumer. This consumer feels that promise was betrayed -- and worse, that when the betrayal was revealed no one held themselves responsible or offered so much as an apology.
These brands are tarnished, Oprah’s included, and they don’t deserve any more of my time or money.
When will someone in the public prints get knock-down mad about this the way some Amazon.com customers have?