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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As I'm increasingly fed up with news hacks and bloggers, so I'm increasingly impatient with the whole damned Web. With overexposure to it you can reduce the world's concerns to seven story lines, much as with the output of Hollywood and the theatre; after a while you rue that you've said the same things on the same seven topics seven times seven times. Could the Web and its instant ennui-and-impatience making be at the heart of our miasmic distemper and the political tantrum throwing in general? And why can't the same exhaustion hit the Web and that has ruined the rest of our culture?
It doesn't help my morale to get five hits a day either -- and those with effort.