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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Dubner finds it "strange" the way WSJ lists Carter's book Freakonomics
The Wall Street Journal's best-sellers list has Jimmy Carter's book titled "Palestine," not "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid." Stephen J. Dubner writes: "I wondered if perhaps an editorial view had indeed seeped into the makings of the book list." Anyone from WSJ care to respond?
WHICH WSJ?!?!?
P. S. on 12/17 at 7:10 p.m.: I just read the blog entry (figuring someone who wrote Freakonomics wasn't worth skimming) and I see why ROMY linked to it: this typist figures the CONSERVATIVE EDITION may have done it because it was offended by the use of the word "apartheid." Possibly; but couldn't the LIBERAL EDITION have done it to polish the shoes of HISTORY'S GREATEST EX-PRESIDENT?
WHICH WSJ?!?!?