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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He was a prime mover in the "new" journalism, which insisted that the journalist was as interesting as the story (if not more so) and which has had almost entirely deleterious effects that can be felt, or read, to this day. Not merely is the chief assumption behind the "new" journalism wholly untenable -- the journalist who is as interesting as the story has yet to be born -- but so too is the assumption that journalism is synonymous with literature. Though some of Morris's own writing came close to that exalted territory, almost everything Harper's published during his reign was as evanescent as the words you are reading now.
What is blogging but the NEW New Jernalism?