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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This is a most interesting photo. Useless News tells us it was taken on June 5, 1967. That's LBJ in the Oval Office poring over Teletype printouts while a custom-built TV set blares with the Big Three, all no doubt carrying the same pool feed from Turtle Bay. We may think our newsgathering has vastly improved from four decades ago, but consider: most Web news seems to be glorified rewrites of ASSociated Press stories, and the Big Three, for all the talk of the alleged death of network news, still command a vastly greater audience than all their cable rivals combined. Despite our vaunted technology we may not know much better than LBJ did. Plus ça change....