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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[J]ournalism ethicist Bob Steele of the Poynter Institute said the proposed deal should raise questions for reporters at The Inquirer and Daily News and for readers as well.
"Why do you need to take a time-honored buil-DING that houses two reputable pa-PERS and wrap it up and turn it into some kind of animated...CHARACTER?" Steele asked. "Is it strictly being done to make...MONEY? Are times that...BAD?" [Concerned jernalistic overemphasis added]
The hacks have been selling for show-biz for decades and NOW they get mad. I guess that's the meaning of jernalism e-thi-CIST.
(Via the usual Romy, where else)