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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We'd argue with people spending so much time before a monitor they're reading more than ever. No, it may not be the civilized behavior of Eustace Tilley cozying himself up in an easy chair with a book and his monocle, but it's reading. If it's people not reading the right things, one may ask, is it EHDYUKAYSHUN? Of course. But with 5 MILLION BOOKS IN PRINT every year maybe it's the books themselves too. A culture that can turn out 5 MILLION BOOKS A YEAR is not illiterate, though it may barely be literate. With so many books and so little time people may have other more pressing things to do. No, one could argue people are reading -- and writing -- TOO MUCH.
(Via several of the usual sources that engage in such posting)