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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[O]rganizers expected more than 2 billion people in 200 countries to tune in.
This is the sort of blatant statistical PR news hacks ply us with every day. If the fanatical World Cup drew only 400 million why should this draw five times as many? Please explain, al Reut. You can't? Didn't think you could.
Does any American network air this? Should any?
Speaking of statistics:
It has been estimated that contest may draw some five million extra tourists to Warsaw by 2010, help create 20 000 [sic] jobs and boost Poland’s economic output.
Get this scribbler a job in Washington!