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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Howard Stern's Ad Rates on Sirius Slump to Low of $5,000
Of course this being ADAGE we have to offer our own junk stats (5 MILLION LISTENERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and our own junk sound byte from the president of the Jackass: Number 2 Fan Club:
"He had to know going in that his universe would be smaller," said Rich Russo, director-broadcast, JL Media, who said that although Mr. Stern is "not the pop-cultural force he once was" in radio, he's still up there with Guglielmo Marconi and Alan Freed, making him "one of the three most important men in history of radio -- and one of them invented it."
Yes, take eighty years out of radio's history and you're right.