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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THOSE WHO WOULD CONDESCEND TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC -- DECIDING THAT MORE AND MORE THINGS ARE "DIRTY" AND THAT EVERYONE, INCLUDING GROWN MEN AND WOMEN, MUST SIMPLY NOT BE ALLOWED TO WATCH OR HEAR THEM UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES -- ARE OFTEN THE ONES WITH THE MOST PITIABLE PSYCHOSEXUAL ISSUES!!!!!
I suspect the ad biz has a three-volume thick list of "issues" past and present, PSYCHOSEXUAL and otherwise; and I'm not sure, in any case, we should pay much attention to a trade-rag typist covering a biz whose primary m.o. is LYING.
(Via MediaBistro.com. AdAge.com is another site that has recently "improved" itself -- in this case, making things harder to find -- so we haven't posted from it as often. Maybe we should start posting again.)