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 the problem with profit centers in JERNALISM: they think themselves omnipotent and insuperable. How many times have idiot hacks praised HONEY for her BEEEEEYOUTEE? and her "brains"? Honest, she was an ordinary hack who got a big break. The same with someone like THE KEYBOARD THROWER, or half the staff at ESPN, or your average millionaire pundit. By concentrating on profit centers the news biz devises one more reason why meat-and-potatoes reporting goes to hell.
(Via MediaBistro)
P. S. Howie Hairshirt and Jonny Hairshirt are lecturing her, meaning her job is safe -- for now. (Via the usual Romy)