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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Boston Globe trashed 30,000 papers with "miracle" story
Here's why all the headbanging: they were doing their fake "Our Town" routine. The same people were too eager to yell MIRACLE!!!!!!!!!! precisely because they've been so eager to yell GRIM!!!!!!!!!! They also remember Baby Jessica, and how that boosted sales, and they allowed their sales-motivated wishful thinking to strangle them. We did not need this sordid episode to tell us why news hacks should be held in lesser esteem than -- first-degree murderers?
One thing's clear: we'll be hearing from the cretins HOWIE HAIRSHIRT and GREG and ROMY long after this gloomy story has faded from the news.