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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These are extremely typical of heds with idiot hooks. How many "Borat Make Glorious Box Office" heds have we endured? This is Sex, Lies and Videotape Syndrome, where EVERY editor had to use a pun on that title whether it was warranted or not. Okay, the second hed came from a "pure" Web site. But it also came from NEWS HACKS.
This is surely a reason why one writer says newspaper circ isn't declining, it's in an avalanche -- and there's no reason news Web sites can't fall down the same cliff. (Link via Romy)