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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As we've mentioned before we imagine one of the hacks' favorite songs is "The Typewriter", as they can type idly away to the obsolete clattering of a keyboard and think they're saying something. Well, one doesn't have to be a hack to use a typewriter, and this perfesser did a whole lot of typing thinking our current...economy might produce an effusion of artistic genius. If someone can identify a new F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, James Agee, Edmund Wilson, etc., etc., etc., I will happily agree. Certainly with logrolling as strong as it is in book revueing the temptation is unavoidable. Unfortunately, unless you're a book revuer or movie ad-blurbist the chances of a reincarnation of twenties genius in our age are about as strong as the second coming of Jimmy Cagney.
(Via the usual AhtsJournal)