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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Frankly, there are few things in this world more dreary to me than the endless musings, gushing and reminiscences of a teenaged girl. I had certain, er, motivations to listen when I was 15. I have none now. As the guy-saying goes: "Hey, if I cared I'd be a chick." Or, as my son said as he scrolled through the thousands of words and dozens of entries of one girl's blog, "Blah, blah, blah. She hates her life. Blah, blah. Shut up."
Today, given the great "success" of Facebook and Twitter, the whole world's a 15-year-old girl.
And sometimes she's someone else. (Sorry to link to THE WAX! twice.)
* P. S. on 4/18/2009 at 5:12 p. m. I was wrong; the linked story is here. (See also this post.)