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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"People have really taken to the idea that they're not just passive consumers of news anymore," says Aaron Smith, a researcher with the Pew Internet & American Life Project. "They're 'nodes' in the news environments themselves, and can now contribute their own thoughts on what the issue of the day is."
As we said Thursday, they may be "nodes" (cute to reduce human beings to mere techy widgets -- double-dimwit), but the system is one great big iron fist beating us into submission, as Iran has proved; and this increasing un-newslike "news" has been pushed hard by BIGMEDIA -- PEOPLE WARNER first reported it. All this demonstrates is that the Internet machine may have a zillion cogs, but often the power to get the cogs moving comes from on top.