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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Shop Talk [Mark Steyn]
In my post on The New York Times’ interminable report on The Los Angeles Times’ interminable non-scandal, I referred to Henry Weinstein, “a veteran reporter at the paper”, as a “unionized staffer you can never get rid of.” Several readers have pointed out the LA Times is a non-union shop. So Mr Weinstein is not a unionized deadbeat but a non-union deadbeat. I regret the error.
But it does make the paper’s over-staffing with under-performers even less explicable.
03/26 12:56 AM
Does that mean he's still a union man?