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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It has been fascinating, during my 5 1/2 years as public editor, to observe changes in the types of spam that arrive in my e-mailboxes each day.
When I first came to this job in 2000, most of the spam was pornographic.
At some point, the porn all but disappeared--it must have fallen victim to spam filters. It has been replaced by two other phenomena: letters, always from a relative of some deposed dictator, asking help in recovering an unfathomably large sum of money and, most recently, long tracts in Cyrillic script, apparently from Russia but about ... well, I don't know.
Since these communications keep coming, I assume their authors find them lucrative. For this recipient, however, something gets lost in the translations.
And DO keep those cards and E-MAILS coming!