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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1. CJR wants news hacks to "lead." We know from Watergate and Vietnam what this means: to lead us over a cliff.
2. Huff'n'Puff (which MediaBistro must identify as "Eat the Press") thinks Mike Wallace's son is a jerk. Fine. He is a jerk. But so is someone like HHHWWWALTER CRRRONKITE JR., and it gets me mad to think again A JERK ISN'T A JERK WHEN HE'S OUR JERK. And what's the difference between someone named Rachel Sklar and someone named Prowler?