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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Richard Cohen expels a half-truth: Yes, photos can be deceiving, but so can news hacks. The reason this suddenly famous one has been "interpreted" incorrectly (note the clever use of the passive voice) is that some widely unread PAPER OF RE-CORD columnist decided to make A CHEAP POLITICAL POINT, and your rag's sister Web site exposed it. We wonder whether Dick's failure to mention the widely-unread columnist was intentional. (Don't you believe in SYNERGY?) But then nobody would have paid attention to what these people may or may not have been doing except that news hacks have a compulsion to scribble -- and to cover up for their fellow news hacks.