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]](http://buttons.blogger.com/bloggerbutton1.gif){kind=small}
What is so especially annoying about this latest CURE FOR CANCER is that today sports occupies the same place culture did 75 years ago. At least you could hum a hit tune from a Broadway musical. Try humming a breast stroke. Except for chokes and Willie Mays catches great plays are one like another; the most memorable moments in sport were audio ones like the farewells of Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, the former with that echo and the latter with his cancer. Sports hacks use words like "CLASSIC!!!!!" the way ad-blurbists use "CLASSIC!!!!!" in trying to apply an aura of immortality (and synergy) to them. But adjectives won't make great catches leaps dives more memorable, and they only tell us that where it should count, in the arts, you can't remember a doggone thing anymore. And however artistic "great moments in sport" may be, sports are not art.