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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I can appreciate the wit, the craft, the subversion of these jibes and you could perhaps read them as affectionate markers of people’s abiding interest in the man. But they also make me feel faintly nauseous. Just as Jackson’s sudden demise says a lot about his poor bodily health, so the alacrity with which bystanders to his pitiful end have rushed to get their gags out says a good deal about the sickly state of our moral sense.
Who has more moral sense: the people almost forced to tell Wacko jokes because the psychotic saturation media coverage impinges on their sanity; or greedmeisters like JEFF BEZOS reminding people on His home page to give to Sony Music's favorite charity? Who has more moral sense: the people fed up with the saturation coverage, or the people who originate it?
I wouldn't tell such jokes, but I understand why others might.