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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When we read five-word above-the-title ads like this we know, regardless of what CONSERVATIVE columnists [Romian emphasis added] might beg us to believe, why we want more news hacks to lose their jobs in general, and why we want show-biz ad-blurbists in particular to lose them. If all you're going to do is spin and sell, yell at us and condescend to us and look for high-profile high-salaried jobs, why should we feel any sympathy for you?
And there won't be as many nonideological stories - about crimes or zoning or state spending - until what was once a solvable problem festers, unreported, into a front-page disaster.
Forgive us for thinking we've done pretty well on that score with you clowns on the job.