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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Asked whether such gratuities violate the Post's ethics guidelines, Rubenstein said, "The paper has no response."
The paper has no ethics guidelines.
P. S. The ROMYs and other press "ethicists" are sure to be excited today because now they have an excuse for getting back at the RUPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- for being "CONSERVATIVE." I wouldn't try that if I were you, guys. Gossip "column" "ethics" must count as among the news biz' best-kept secrets, and what the RUPE!!!!!!!!!!'s whores have done may blow this whole gossip-"columning" racket out of the water. Then people would trust your rags so much there'd be no white knight like the CLATCH to bail them out.