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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"What we've lost in terms of viewers and ad dollars on the traditional audience system is not being made up, not even close, on the digital side. Until we do that, there is a risk," he said.
TRANSLATION: Despite the Panglossian claims of outfits like Nielsen (whose MO seems to be to put the cheeriest numbers forth to soothe the reverse Robin Hoods), some -- yes, some -- people in the audience are departing television for good. They've had it with poor quality; they've had it shell-game scheduling; they've had it with putting the reverse Robin Hoods FIRST; they've had it with the constant excuses and denials of their anti-social tendencies; they've had it with ten-minute ad breaks; they've had it with the accreting minor irritations like bugs and crawlers and snipes; they've had it with the sheer unmitigated contempt the likes of YOU and BEN SILVERMAN and PHIL GRIFFIN have for your viewers. In short, they've HAD IT, and no amount of legerdemain will change that. Sorry, ZUCK, I'd bet on there not being an UNTIL for YOU GUYS.