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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Which came shortly after:
Great newspaper columnists think alike? You decide.
Kansas City Star New York Times
Two columns on the Amish school shootings:
Mike Hendricks in the Kansas City Star, October 6: "The shooter wanted to harm only the girls. Does it strike you as curious -- the way it did me -- that more wasn’t made of that?"
Bob Herbert in the New York Times, October 16: "In the widespread coverage that followed these crimes, very little was made of the fact that only girls were targeted."
Hendricks: "Had he singled out and shot 10 black men or 10 Jews or 10 gays or 10 of almost any other group, we’d be calling it a hate crime -- whether it fit the legal definition or not."
Herbert: "Imagine if a gunman had gone into a school, separated the kids up on the basis of race or religion, and then shot only the black kids. Or only the white kids. Or only the Jews. There would have been thunderous outrage. ...And the attack would have been seen for what it really was: a hate crime."
(I've sent Herbert an e-mail, asking if he had seen Hendricks' column.)
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