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. Some pleasing news on the advertisers-as-reverse-Robin-Hoods front for once:
Media Dollars Drop Despite Election Year [Emphasis added]
Thank you, stupid, venal, obsessively spending pols, for your subsidy to a most worthy charity!
2. Which isn't to say we can't be upbeat, especially after a talk from a certain Goddess's flacks. Translation: Don't pay attention to what happened after She endorsed The Lord.
3. Shucks, even beautiful near-naked women may not be enough to lure young men into certain Web sites for retards -- or the mentally-deficient advertisers who MUST spend on them.
4. What Credit Crisis Means for Media Mergers, Acquisitions
For moguls: BAD. For the rest of us -- GOOD! No mergers and acquisitions for a while!
Interesting factoid: Did you know there's an Efrem "Skip" Zimbalist III who's CEO of a company "which publishes magazines including Backpacker and Yoga Journal"? (AdAge being a mere trade jernal it spells his name "Zimablist".) From violining to The FBI to yoga in three generations. (And there's an Efrem IV, who runs a hedge fund. Oops!) Interesting.