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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And DA NOOZ spins that DA POST!!!!!!!!! hypes its circulation. "1,582,053 copies"!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!! That's a LOT!!!!! Until you consider it's "6,303 extra copies for each weekday - nearly 1% of its total circulation" (it sez here) -- which, when you come down to it, isn't that much, unless you're Bugmeister Bill counting your pocket change.
Speaking of plagues, both RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and Mort Zuck lose big money pouring their fortunes down Big Apple ratholes that seem to be getting bigger and rattier. As with the networks, it isn't who comes first -- it's who avoids being LAST.