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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This evening I called The New York Times's 1-800 number to suspend delivery of my paper for the holiday weekend. I've done this several times over the years and always gotten the same recorded greeting, which kicks off an automated menu. But tonight I heard something different:
Thank you for calling The New York Times. To comment on recent editorial content, please call 212-[xxx-xxxx]. For all other calls, please remain on the line...Such is life, I guess, when you've been accused of "treason."
--Michael Crowley
posted 12:05 a.m.
You can almost hear Little Mikey saying, now if only those Nazis would do that to US.