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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Panel says NYT is "a newspaper at risk" on diversity matters
New York Observer
The Times' Diversity Council says the paper's newsroom is currently 82.5% white, slightly less than the industry average of 86.5%. Only 14% of newsroom managers are minorities. The panel's report notes: "Many in the newsroom said they believed the [Jayson] Blair case had a lasting, deleterious effect on the way minority reporters and editors were viewed, both inside and outside the newsroom."
Happily we're lily-white where it really counts, and we can be George Wallace or Lester Maddox for as long as we please.