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.
PERMALINKS:
THE NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY
THE EUGENE DAVID GLOSSARY
AMERICA'S MOST UNINTENTIONALLY FUNNY WEB SITE!
Blogroll Me!
![[Powered by Blogger]](http://buttons.blogger.com/bloggerbutton1.gif){kind=small}
I can understand why the residents of this Boston ghetto might feel grumpy. Who wants to stare at a concrete wall -- especially after someone's taken your "art" away? I dislike murals because they're haunted with the ghosts of business past; but surely removing graffiti should not be about removing color. Think what a city like Boston could do if it were competently run -- and if it had a Joseph Urban at its disposal. But I dislike graffiti much worse, especially when hacks and others with quicksand for gray matter try to make it something noble through the distorted condescending reasoning of a Studs Terkel. No neighborhood should live with a concrete wall -- but dammit, no neighborhood should have to live with graffiti either, however well-intentioned.