Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Front page



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]

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Posted 4:22 PM by Gene

Clichés come so easily to news hacks. One reason they wrote with boundless glee about "GRIM MILESTONES" in Iraq is that it was in part the only language they could use to fool people into thinking they cared. So when this Clatch scribbler writes, "[M]uch of the soundtrack of your life was recorded here", it is obvious he hasn't had to think in some time, nor have his bosses had to think -- but heck, it's the Clatch, and with its BOFFO SHARE PRICE nobody there has to think.

And unfortunately, Jordan is right -- it is the soundtrack of our life in every @#$%&* store we enter anymore. Can't people keep their bad habits to themselves?

Home
Site Meter eXTReMe Tracker