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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1. No news organization seems capable of writing an article on talk radio without citing the publisher of Talkers, who is to this biz what PAUL DRECK is to fillum, or Perfesser Thompson is to pop-cultyure. Perhaps this is another topic the hacks will have to ditch thanks to their incompetence.
2. Cheer up, much put-upon ad-persons: there's more big money coming your way: thanks to politicians! Then you can really throw it at the fan!
3. Speaking of Democrats: MICHAEL COPPS FOR FCC CHAIRMAN!
4. Sorry, editors of the Big-Double-A-Scribble, Steve Yastrow is right.
(Corrected 2/16/2009; I gave that overexposed self-appointed expert of talk radio the wrong title.)