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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BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURP:
"The marketplace is exerting a far more dangerous influence on what gets on and what doesn't get on television news programming these days than any . . . fear of political repercussions or consequences....
"As all of you know far better than I, the cost of a commercial on a program that reaches an audience over 45 or 50 is a fraction of what a . . . sponsor is willing to pay for a commercial on a broadcast that reaches the 18-to-29-year-olds."
Look, dammit, if superserious news types like YOU, LORD KOPPEL, had done your job RIGHT MAYBE we wouldn't be pontificating about stupid KIDS.
And as Rosie's Nephew could remind you, St. Edward of Murrow had PERSON TO PERSON -- and YOU had BRUCE.
Thankfully Lisa ran this; if HOWIE HAIRSHIRT had done it he'd have agreed with him.
(Via MediaBistro)