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 don't know how long this hack has been writing, but judging from this graphic it's been a VERY long time, and we must not forget he was a ROCK mu-SICK cri-TICK, which means it's been a VERY VERY long time. This biz will never solve its problems without younger (or at least different) blood, and some of the tired old blood just doesn't want to circulate out of the newsrooms.
Besides, clod, "It's what the public wants" applies to TWINKIES too.
Haven't enough BIGMEDIA types said how wonderful BIGMEDIA are?
(Via MediaBistro)